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: Friday, May 09, 2003 7:17 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> 
> > In case someone misread your message, let's be clear: Only 
> the Data Model 
> > and Functions and Operators are in Last call.
> 
> Good point.  Still, the most fundamental complaint I hear on 
> XML-DEV about 
> XQuery seems to be that the data model has gone overboard in 
> incorporating 
> PSVI and thus binding everything too tightly to the XSDL type system. 
> That's why I mentioned the last call.

The fundamental complaint I have about XML-DEV is that people are very
good at generating megabytes of mail traffic about technologies they
neither have used nor tried to understand. XML-DEV is a festival of
cranky old men complaining about the "youth of today" and how things
were better in the XML world in the old days. I've read the few
complaints about XQuery & XSLT 2.0 and besides irrational FUD about
dependencies on W3C XML Schema have failed to see any valid issues
brought up. 

This is unfortunate since I was hoping I'd see more criticisms of the
family of specs from a technical perspective besides what we've done
internally during our own review process. 

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