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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Why *is* XQuery taking so long?
 Fair enough. But you may also have to face situations where the big companies have better answers, better implementations, and better marketing. The W3C cannot dictate terms to the market either. Hardball is the game played to win marketshare and it is the responsibility of these companies to play to win. That is why it is dangerous to equate specifications to standards because either can be a solution. The processes for creating specifications don't have to be as slow as the process for creating standards, but we have to accept the consequences when better specifications come from places other than our favorite standards organizations. The market is still competitive. What we don't have to accept is inferior specifications turning into inferior standards. That can be remedied. Reading this thread, it seems to me that is exactly what XQuery has attempted. len From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@d...] There's another permathread philosophical question again: should we just let individual companies create things, watch them take hold in the marketplace, and then standardize them? The standard W3C answer is that we don't want the big players to dictate terms to everyone else, and that for many crucial technologies, we should work together to create solutions. 
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