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Weird, this looks like the third time in this thread that I haven't received a message that was sent to "xml-dev & Mike Champion". So far I've [at the very least] missed one each from Paul T, Michael Kay and Jonathan Robie. PS: I know I should probably mail this to the list admins but I've misplaced the original mail I received when signing up. :( -- THINGS TO DO IF I BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD #41 Once my power is secure, I will destroy all those pesky time-travel devices. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@S...> To: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 6:09 AM Subject: RE: W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - Still missing Updates > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael Kay [mailto:michael.h.kay@n...] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 6:11 AM > > To: 'Champion, Mike'; xml-dev@l... > > Subject: RE: W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - > > Still missing Updates > > > > But I also worry about the cost we are asking users to pay > > (learning costs, transition costs, cost of complexity) to achieve these > > benefits. It's a fine judgement to get the balance right. > > Right. FWIW, I can make a more compelling argument for adding simple types > (so that people can query on floats or dates without insisting that the > string representations match), than I can for adding full schema support > (e.g., so that a query processor can infer that valid instances of a schema > could not possibly match a query). That seems to incorporate the lessons of > SQL (as near as I can tell from this thread and from some Googling) -- > people use the simple types in simple ways, but getting into type theory and > user-defined types quickly leads to Interoperability Hell. > > The larger issues that Mike Kay raises are critical: All this committee work > is for nothing if the result is too complex or expensive to actually use. I > am not all that much dumber than the average software developer, I have > followed the XML world full-time for 5 years now, and this > schema/PSVI/strongly-typed XQuery stuff makes my head spin. I can't imagine > what ordinary developers who don't focus on XML will think of it. > > Actually, come to think of it, I can ... it will be C++ and the Windows API > all over again; few developers go anywhere near it without GUI tools and > wizards to hide the complexity behind a proprietary front end. Sigh, I > thought that was what we were trying to put behind us.... > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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