size of XQuery developer community

[G. Ken Holman]

At 2009-08-26 10:07 -0700, Daniela Florescu wrote:
>almost every time when I give a talk about XQuery I get confronted
>with the same  question, to which I do not know the answer.

How would you characterize the people asking such a question, in that 
how would the answer help them in why they are asking?

>The question from the audience always is: " How many XQuery developers
>are there? "
>-- with the underlying assumption that, indeed, there are not that many.
>
>Please help me with this.

How could one possibly come up with an answer for that question?

How many XSLT developers are out there?

>I honestly don't know the answer.

Who could?

>How do you appreciate the size of the XQuery developers community ?
>(thousands,
>tens of thousands, millions !!??)

In North America?  In Europe?  In China?

All I can say is that in my combined XSLT/XQuery hands-on classes so 
far in North America the ratio of students attending who are focused 
on XSLT vs those who are focused on XQuery is about 4 to 1.

All that tells me is that at this time there are more people 
interested in learning XSLT than learning XQuery.  You may want to 
extrapolate such a relatively small sample into a general rule, just 
don't tell any statisticians.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken


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