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Re: xPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0 ... size increase over v1.0

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• Subject: Re: xPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0 ... size increase over v1.0
• From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Date: 10 Jun 2003 21:56:27 +1000
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anyone remember ada - the perfect programming language?

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 20:27, Roger L. Costello wrote:
> Michael Kay wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Comparison (number of printed pages of the specification)
> > >
> > > xPath 1.0   xPath 2.0   increase
> > > ----------------------------------
> > >   45          254         564%
> > >
> > >
> > > XSLT 1.0     XSLT 2.0    increase
> > > ----------------------------------
> > >   128         385         301%
> > >
> > 
> > And your conclusion is?
> 
> Your XSLT book now stands at 938 pages.  How big will it be for XSLT
> 2.0?  1500 pages?  Can a technology which takes 1500 pages to describe
> truly be considered a "Web technology"?  
> 
> The tendency of version 2.0 of the W3 technologies is to "add more
> stuff".  Version 2.0 of XSLT, xPath, and XML Schemas are all doing the
> same thing - adding more stuff.  I question that that is the right
> approach.
> 
> I like the approach taken in RSS 1.0 - creating modules.  I like the
> idea that Rick Jelliffe has been espousing for years - no one schema
> language can do everything; allow for multiple schema languages, which
> can work together seamlessly.  I like the idea of technologies designed
> to encourage cottage industries to crop up to support niche markets.
> 
> What do I conclude?  I conclude that the strategy for generating version
> 2.0 of many of the XML family of technologies is fundamentally flawed. 
> Unless the strategy is changed the entire family of technologies will
> collapse from its own enormous weight.  /Roger
> 
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