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


Re:  Ten new XQuery
At 15:45 06/05/2003 -0400, Mike Champion wrote:
>On Tue, 06 May 2003 18:26:56 +0100, Dave Pawson <dpawson@n...> wrote:
>>>If there were one spec defined solely in terms of
>>>elements, attributes and text, and another built on
>>>top of that one that added typed data, then sure,
>>>I'd use the former and simply not bother with the latter.
>
>That's the point of the "conformance levels", so people who just need 
>elements and attributes and text could (in principle) just use tools that 
>don't bother with the latter.  But as I understand the specs and the 
>explanation by Michael Kay, the "typed data" is baked into the lowest 
>conformance level.
>
>"a Basic XSLT Processor must be able to manipulate atomic values 
>conforming to any of the XML Schema built-in types, for example strings, 
>integers, decimals, doubles, dates, times, QNames. But a Basic XSLT 
>processor does not support type annotations on nodes in the data model: 
>all nodes are untyped. And it does not support user-defined types."

Which supports what Joe said?
   Glue it all in so it can't be unhooked?




>This stuff is in Last Call, so people who believe that this is 
>inappropriate have until June 30 to make your opinions known.  I 
>respectfully disagree with Joe English that this will just make work for 
>the WG and they will do what they are going to do irrespective of what 
>Last Call reviews say; this is HARD TO JUSTIFY in the W3C as it works TODAY.

?So was Iraq?
  Hard to justify that is.

>  Unless, of course, people don't submit formal comments, in which case it 
> is very easy to say "it's just an insignificant minority who want that, 
> we will ignore them."  I was just on a W3C Chairs telcon today, and while 
> there is certainly a point of view that informed users should have read 
> and commmented on drafts long before Last Call, there is an equally 
> strong body of opinion that says Last Call is telling the world, "we're 
> done experimenting and arguing, now it's safe to take a close look 
> because we REALLY want your opinion on this."

I've heard both views on that.
   Comment asap and leave it till last call.

regards DaveP




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