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

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• Subject: Re: Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working Drafts
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 15:53:12 -0400
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On Mon, 05 May 2003 12:29:39 -0700, Joe English <jenglish@f...> 
wrote:


>
> That was all the triage I needed.  I won't be using these
> technologies at all.

"Public comments on this document and its open issues are welcome, in 
particular comments on Issue 510. Comments should be sent to the W3C 
XPath/XQuery mailing list, public-qt-comments@w... (archived at 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/)."

I think [wearing neither any W3C hat or my Day Job hat] that the W3C is not 
the same place it was a couple of years ago when working groups were 
basically trusted to do the right thing -- it is much harder to get a spec 
to Recommendation status, and there is a lot of Process specifying how 
informed dissent and constructive suggestions must be handled. To a certain 
extent a WG can still just say "we considered that idea and rejected it" 
but the original issue must be tracked all the way to the Director for 
final approval of the resolution. There's also the TAG to (at least 
potentially) address fundamental architectural issues.

I would encourage people who have found XPath/XSLT 1.0 useful to carefully 
consider the changes they don't like, to make their opinions known on the 
comment lists (I assure you that the issues list editors don't take input 
from xml-dev!) and to offer suggestions for how to keep the "neat new 
stuff" without making the whole thing unusable.  See the "conformance 
levels" in particular.

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    • From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>

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