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

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

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> From: bry@itnisk.com [mailto:bry@itnisk.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 2:16 PM
> To: Dare Obasanjo
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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> That said I'm sure you've probably gone over the many ways 
> that concerns about xslt 2.0 dependencies is so much 
> irrational FUD in some other post in the past, can you send 
> me the link so I don't have to google all over for your 
> response? 

I haven't because no one has given any technical reasons for their
complaints besides dislike of W3C XML Schema or the fact that
W3C XML Schema has a lot more primitive types than they expected. There
really isn't much of a  response one can make to comments like those. 

> As an aside you seem to be of two minds on this 
> irrational FUD, as you characterize it, as you claim that 
> aside from that you have not seen any valid issues brought 
> up, implying that you also see it as something of a valid issue.

Negative perception of the language regardless of whether it is founded
on fact or not is a valid issue. 

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