RE: [xml-dev] Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working Drafts

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@xegesis.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 12:46 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org

>> If there were one spec defined solely in terms of
>> elements, attributes and text, and another built on
>> top of that one that added typed data, then sure,
>> I'd use the former and simply not bother with the latter.
>
> That's the point of the "conformance levels", so people who just need 
> elements and attributes and text could (in principle) just 
> use tools that 
> don't bother with the latter. 

I haven't ever seen this claim made in the context of XQuery or related
specs in the past. Can you provide some rationale for making this
assertion? 

What conformance levels mean from the perspective of XQuery has been
clearly spelled out in the XQuery language working draft for at least
the past 6 months. If you are unaware of it I suggest reading
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#id-conformance 

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