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Tuples!!!!! On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 11:44 PM, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx < xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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
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