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

• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working Drafts
• From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 14:31:57 -0400
• Cc: Mike Champion <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
• Organization: BAH
• References: <B885BEDCB3664E4AB1C72F1D85CB29F805C1F9A4@R...>

<Quote>
XML-DEV is a festival of cranky old men complaining about the "youth of
today" and how things were better in the XML world in the old days. 
</Quote>

Hey -- I was born in the 60s (the *late* 60s).  :);)

Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...]
> > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 7:17 AM
> > To: xml-dev@l...
> >
> > > In case someone misread your message, let's be clear: Only
> > the Data Model
> > > and Functions and Operators are in Last call.
> >
> > Good point.  Still, the most fundamental complaint I hear on
> > XML-DEV about
> > XQuery seems to be that the data model has gone overboard in
> > incorporating
> > PSVI and thus binding everything too tightly to the XSDL type system.
> > That's why I mentioned the last call.
> 
> The fundamental complaint I have about XML-DEV is that people are very
> good at generating megabytes of mail traffic about technologies they
> neither have used nor tried to understand. XML-DEV is a festival of
> cranky old men complaining about the "youth of today" and how things
> were better in the XML world in the old days. I've read the few
> complaints about XQuery & XSLT 2.0 and besides irrational FUD about
> dependencies on W3C XML Schema have failed to see any valid issues
> brought up.
> 
> This is unfortunate since I was hoping I'd see more criticisms of the
> family of specs from a technical perspective besides what we've done
> internally during our own review process.
> 
> --
> PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM
> Mincing your words is a good thing because you may have to eat them
> later.
> 
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