Re: Watch "Michael Kay (Saxonica): Standards update: X

> Agreed, but it would be good not to confuse the readers -- this video
> is *not*  from XML Prague 2018 -- it is one ore two years old.

Yes, thank you for pointing this out to people.
>
> Someone, please, correct me if I am wrong: it seems that at this
> year's XML Prague 2018 there was no Standards Update by Dr. Kay --
> right or wrong?

Correct. There were updates on various topics such as XProc from various other
people though.
>
> And it was a bad news to me that there is no W3C XSLT Working group
> anymore :(   Again, please, correct me if I am wrong.
>

I think it's good news that the group has been able to declare its mission
accomplished. XSLT now does what the vast majority of users need, and
standards groups should not continue tweaking a language just because they
enjoy the work.

Of course, there are things I would still like to do: tuples, named type
aliases, array constructors, for example. But there are diminishing returns in
adding things, especially when the number of implementors has dropped to one
or two.

Actually the group is not quite disbanded yet: we are still meeting
occasionally to handle errata. But no new development is planned.

Michael Kay
Saxonica