• To: Tom Bradford <tbradford@o...>
• Subject: Re: What niche is XQuery targeting?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:53:14 -0500
• Cc: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>, Tim Bray <tbray@t...>, Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>,XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
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Tom Bradford wrote:
> On the contrary,  I think the fact that it's now December of 2004, and 
> we've yet to see a rec of XQuery 1.0, even though it's been touted as 
> the de-facto successor in XML query languages for years leaves ample 
> room for comparison.  Any language that has been built up on that much 
> hype for so long, yet is not finished, is open for comparison to any 
> other, even if it hasn't found widespread acceptance.

I think that market adoption of a standard is hugely influenced  by (1) 
a completed standard, and (2) good implementations of that completed 
standard.

If you think a fair comparison can be made without taking these into 
account, I guess we disagree.

Jonathan

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