Fwd: ANSWERS to "What's wrong with XQuery" question

[James Fuller]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Michael Kay <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
>
>> Fair enough and this is good advice for any technology selection but I
>> dont think any of us is bringing up this because its based on idle
>> chit chat, if you have data contrary to a vast amount of work going
>> online, at conferences, books and yes maybe even in pubs be happy to
>> see it.
>>
>>
>
> I don't have data - I don't think anyone does. But I'm pretty confident that
> what people talk about at conferences and the like is not statistically
> representative of what people are doing in the typical IT shop. XML after 12
> years has become respectable and boring, and it's when technologies become
> respectable and boring that people stop talking about them but carry on
> using them - and that's the phase when suppliers make the most money. No-one
> talks about SQL any more, but everyone is still using it.

I agree with you that XML is now part of every developers toolbox and
closer to peak adoption phase and boring. I am not trying to convince
you that your viewpoint is incorrect, its true but several things can
be true at the same time. Anyhow, I have drifted into xmldev territory
... so will try to bring this back to how it relates to xquery.

One thing that we can do is make XQuery very easy to work with web
services; expath http means we have a standard library with which to
build some more sophisticated and generic web services clients. Where
to go from here ?

thx, J