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Re: Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working

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• Subject: Re: Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working
• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 13:34:59 -0400
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Uche Ogbuji writes:

 > > Standards should be based on existing practice; failing that,
 > > there should be ample opportunity for designs to compete.
 > 
 > Absolutely.  This is, and always has been the crux of the problem
 > with XQuery and company.  Yes, in XML we've become used to
 > "standardization" committees that are really research teams, and
 > this is not always bad.  We've had some good stuff such as XPath
 > 1.0 emerge, and it actually worked out in the marketplace.

I think that it's wonderful that we have the W3C as a large, funded
industry consortium committed to royalty-free R&D, and it's wonderful
that we have the W3C as a large, funded industry consortium committed
to royalty-free standards.

The only unfortunate part is the tendency to mix the two roles -- an
R&D organization is similar to an accountant while a standards body is
similar to an auditor, and we've all seen what happens when people get
to audit themselves.


All the best,


David

-- 
David Megginson, david@m..., http://www.megginson.com/

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    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>

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