RE: [xml-dev] XSLT and XQuery

["Michael Rys" <mrys@microsoft.com>]

I would like to point out that already (almost) two years ago, when the
first draft of the XML Query WG's requirement document was published,
that update functionality would not be part of the first version of the
standard. 

Some people in the WG (such as Jonathan and myself) find updates to be
very important but understand and support the reasons why the WG decided
to concentrate on retrieval for v1. 

I am a bit surprised that people then did not complain. If there would
have been such a support for updates after the first draft of the req
document, I am sure we could have swayed the WG. Now, I am sorry to say,
it is rather late.

Best regards
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@xegesis.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 5:43 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XSLT and XQuery
> 
> 1/8/2002 7:43:12 AM, Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@softwareag.com>
wrote:
> 
> 
> >That's a time frame, but it still doesn't identify the "big issue"
that
> >Jonathan Borden is asking for.
> 
> Hmm, I thought Jonathan Borden was wondering why XQuery could possibly
> take
> a year or two to complete, but maybe he was asking why it would be a
> problem to
> wait that long for a completed standard with updates.  The Big Issue
that
> I see is
> roughly what JJ Andersen said elsewhere in this thread:
> 
> "If XQuery goes ahead without Update, it will become a nice tool, but
not
> a real usefull standard. And we will see independent update semantics
> emerge from Oracle, IBM, MS etc. and chaos will prevail."
> 
> What inspired me to post the "best is the enemy of the good" gibberish
> yesterday was this article: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-
> 8353604.html
> If the world is counting on the W3C to save the Web from the folks who
> want
> to be evil overlords, then the W3C has to either get something out
ASAP or
> do a better job of managing expectations for how great it's going to
be in
> the
> fullness of time.  A world with a universally supported, strongly
typed
> XML
> query/update language that produces provably schema-valid results is
> "best".
> A world with a weaker standard but without chaos or evil overlordship
is
> "good."
> I wish I felt more confident that pursuing the "best" for a year or
more
> does  leave
> us wide-open to either chaos or proprietary domination. That's my "big
> issue."
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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