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RE: Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working Drafts

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• Subject: RE: Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working Drafts
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 12:33:04 -0700
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• Thread-topic: Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working Drafts

  
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> From: bry@i... [mailto:bry@i...] 
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 2:16 PM
> To: Dare Obasanjo
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> That said I'm sure you've probably gone over the many ways 
> that concerns about xslt 2.0 dependencies is so much 
> irrational FUD in some other post in the past, can you send 
> me the link so I don't have to google all over for your 
> response? 

I haven't because no one has given any technical reasons for their
complaints besides dislike of W3C XML Schema or the fact that
W3C XML Schema has a lot more primitive types than they expected. There
really isn't much of a  response one can make to comments like those. 

> As an aside you seem to be of two minds on this 
> irrational FUD, as you characterize it, as you claim that 
> aside from that you have not seen any valid issues brought 
> up, implying that you also see it as something of a valid issue.

Negative perception of the language regardless of whether it is founded
on fact or not is a valid issue. 

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