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Request for XPath 2.0 Vision Document

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• Subject: Request for XPath 2.0 Vision Document
• From: AndrewWatt2000@a...
• Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 04:59:47 EDT
• Cc: janet@w...

For some 2 years now the only permanent link relating to XPath from the W3C 
Home Page is direct to the XPath 1.0 Recommendation of November 1999. That 
remains the case. There is no link to a page describing the general direction 
for XPath, implementations etc etc. The XPath REC is not the most user 
friendly document and better information on XPath 1.0 should be provided for 
visitors to the W3C Web site. The current situation is also misleading to the 
casual visitor since no mention is made of XPath 2.0 at all from that sole 
permanent link on the Home Page.

I would like to request that this improvement in communication include 
coverage of the current activity on XPath 2.0.

The absence of a link from the W3C Home Page means that many visitors will 
simply think that XPath is frozen at the November 1999 position. That, of 
course, is misleading. I suggest that communication be improved by providing 
a meaningful and up to date link on the current XPath activities, including a 
clear and concise vision statement of where XPath 2.0 is going.

The XML Activity page (http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity) indicates, correctly, 
that inconsistencies have arisen among the growing number of XML-related 
specifications.

Provision of a coherent XPath 2.0 Vision Document would help provide 
reassurance that the current plans for XPath 2.0 are not going to add to the 
existing inconsistencies.

Andrew Watt

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