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Re: XPath/XSLT 2.0 concerns

• To: michael.h.kay@n...
• Subject: Re: XPath/XSLT 2.0 concerns
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:18:55 -0700
• Cc: 'Mike Champion' <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
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Michael Kay wrote:

> But I think that once people are dealing with really large
> vocabularies, constructing the patterns in terms of element names gets
> more and more difficult, and being able to match against types at
> different levels of a type hierarchy gets more and more valuable.

I disagree - I have yet to see a data transformation/extraction 
application get in trouble because there were too many element names - 
but I think that neither of us can claim that there's a really large 
body of evidence to back up our positions.  This is why I'm unhappy that 
the XQuery WG is charging down the path of building a type-centric 
schema-centric system bulging with unnecessary complexity, on the basis 
of this speculative hypothesis.  -Tim

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