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> > Many W3C Working Groups try very hard to minimize any > work in response to reviews. I'm sorry that's your perception. My perception is that we had 1100 comments on the "first last call" for XQuery/XPath/XSLT; and we worked bloody hard for over a year to deal with them all; and that the resulting improvement to the quality of the specs was tangible, but not worth the year's delay. I dare say that to people who raised a comment and only got an answer four months later, it felt like we were sitting on our backsides doing nothing, especially if the final answer was "no"; but I can assure you that wasn't the case. I think W3C is actually suffering from involving too many people in the process rather than too few. It's diminishing returns: double the effort for a 5% improvement in quality. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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