OK, thanx for the information Oleg - there's no problem - it will only make
our efforts to bring XQuery 1.0 support to .NET developers, apart from great
XSLT/XPath 2.0 support, even greater - all thanx to the main efforts of
Michael Kay and his excellent product Saxon-B 8.2.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/saxondotnet/
http://www.x2x2x.org/x2x2x/home/

Cheers,
<prs/>

-----Original Message-----
From: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:oleg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:12 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Microsoft .net and XSLT 2

Pieter Reint Siegers Kort wrote:

> I'm working with the 2.0 beta of .NET and it has XQuery 1.0 support - 
> you are saying that it will not be supported? That sounds rather 
> strange to me - please explain.

Yes, .NET 2.0 Beta1 contains XQuery implementation. But then Microsoft
decided to cut it. See the reasons at
http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2004/10/13/241591.aspx

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Oleg Tkachenko
http://blog.tkachenko.com
Multiconn Technologies, Israel