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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.
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Hey -- I was born in the 60s (the *late* 60s). :);)
Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>
> > -----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.
>
> --
> PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM
> Mincing your words is a good thing because you may have to eat them
> later.
>
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