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After writing about the new XSLT and XPath requirements documents, plus the latest in query, I'm getting kind of concerned by how deeply intertwined all of these specs seem to be getting, and how intertwined with Schemas they're becoming. XSLT 2.0 processors will need an understanding of XML Schema datatypes, while XPath 2.0 processors will need to implement the regular expression language specified in XML Schemas. XQuery builds on all of these, using the strategy pioneered by Quilt. The current draft of XML Schemas requires schema processors to understand XPath as well. Once, long ago, I wanted the W3C to make sure its specs coordinated and made some kind of coherent sense. That never really happened, but now we seem to moving toward a jungle of intertwined specs, with complexity increasing despite/because of reuse. Anyone else find this unnerving? Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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