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> From: Jonathan Robie
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 2:31 PM
> To: Mike Champion;
>
> Strange, Ari first implies that the number of implementations
> is a good indication of whether a specification is simple
> enough, then implies that XQuery is not (presumably because
> it only has around **15 ** implementations?). I don't think
> XML 1.0, DOM Level 1, or XSLT had as many implementations as
> XQuery now has, certainly not at the same stage of
> development. And these implementations are certainly not all
> from major vendors - including some of the better ones.
There aren't 15 implementations of XQuery in compliance with the current
family of specs and I doubt there ever will be given the degree of
complexity, inconsistency, underspecification and outright errors in the
current drafts.
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