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On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 10:27 -0500, David Lee wrote: > What's missing ? David, thanks for replying! > 1) A Standard (or well adopted convention) for Serialized XDM so that > programs may exchange XDM in addition to XML I think (Rich Salz notwithstanding) EXI 2 may do this. Remains to be seen, but I hope so. > 2) Better support for XDM in XQuery and XSLT to allow the input 'document' > to be any XDM value, and corresponding support in the implementations to > portably read such data (see #1) I'm not sure on the status of this; the first part is already there I think, unless you're asking for a further relaxing of constraints in the XDM - in which case please file a comment against the last call draft of the XDM 3.0 that was published in December; the Status section of the document has a link to the Bugzilla instance for doing that. As for implementations - can you think of ways we could test it? if so, feel free to contribute tests, or to join the WG :-) or just to bug the vendors. > > 3) Adoption of the JSON Data model into XDM so that XPath/XSLT/XQuery/Schema > can be directly used on JSON data Agreed. > > 4) A standard/convention for JSON / XDM conversions to allow #1 as both > input and output. Not sure if this is premature, but it may fall under your No, 3 above. > 5) "Excel for XML" (or XDM see #1) so prevalent and accepted that it becomes > acceptable to pass XML among business partners instead of having to convert > to/from CSV or XLS. Well, that would be nice. It'd have to offer a business advantage - one or more of . faster . lower cost . enabling (things you couldn't do before) Thanks for the feedback! Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
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