• To: "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@s...>,"Evan D. Lenz" <elenz@x...>, "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XSLT and XQuery
• From: "Evan D. Lenz" <elenz@x...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 12:40:47 -0800
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• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20020108142044.042df6f0@s...>

Jonathan Robie wrote:
> >It's not as
> >if XPath 2.0 as currently specified can be declared a minimal
> victory; it's
> >completely dependent on the as-of-yet unspecified XQuery type system.
>
> As yet unspecified? As a member of the XSL WG, surely you have read the
> specification for the type system:
>
> http://web3.w3.org/TR/query-algebra/
>
> You are also familiar with the issues, especially structural vs. named
> typing. Are you saying that the type system is not specified
> until we close
> all the issues? Or perhaps you are referring to the fact that we delayed
> publication of the Formal Semantics so that it could track
> developments in
> the XQuery language?

Must you take me so literally? :-) I admit to using hyperbole in my
reference to the large range of significant issues that remain open.

Evan

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