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

At 14:02 12/05/2003 -0400, Jonathan Robie wrote:

>For simple datatypes, there's only one game in town. And that limits our 
>choices somewhat...and beyond that, our *requirements* force us to support 
>these datatypes. They also force us to support documents that do not 
>contain them, including merely-well-formed and DTD-governed documents.

Perhaps W3C, or at least this WG, got the requirements right first time?
I've only ever seen one set of requirements that didn't change over time,
and I wrote those after I'd delivered the software, for ISO9000 sake.

Are they really cast in stone?

regards DaveP