RE: Locating Things Relative to Location of Style Shee

>If others would Iike to add their voice before I submit
>it to the editors?

I would like to add one other thing that I forgot in my last post, the
comment
 " David's just worried about the obsolescence of his XPath 1.0 skills."

While obviously humorous in intent is I think exactly opposite of what
this argument is about, in fact I think many of us here are arguing
against our at least short term financial well-being, and this I think
makes our arguments the more pertinent. At any rate I know I am arguing
against my short-term financial well-being.

How so:

The interlocking specifications/technologies proposed by W3C are of a
far higher order of complexity than the current ones, this argues that
people with some knowledge of these technologies will increase in value,
I have already seen this with Xml schema which, although I'm not great
guns at that I am an improvement on some guy with Near & Far (believe me
I know) or I suppose XML Spy, I have done consultancy to large firms
with Schema problems here in Danmark (I think consultancy work is great
fun, there's so many interesting ways to say: "Xml Schema required huh,
wow, you guys are screwed") :) and given today's uncertain job market I
think someone that could claim various schema technologies on their CV
and point to actual applications where said technologies were used,
along with Xslt 1.0 and Xpath 1.0 would be extremely attractive when the
whole thing jumped a level of magnitude in complexity to xslt 2.0, Xpath
2.0, xml schema integration, Xquery, especially when, as is obvious for
the people on this list, they have kept themselves up-to-date on the
coming apocalypse.

So anyway that's my opinion, that our arguing against this may not be in
our best interest in the short-term financial sense but is in another
sense, the sense of having tools that we will actually want to use
(because they are of an elegant and adaptable nature), and can use to
build great things (for the same reason), very much in our interest. 

Hope this wasn't too irritating and pointless.





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