[xquery-talk] XQ4J

[Frank Cohen]

Want to point me to a portion of the XSLT spec to learn why the  
"effort was abandoned"?

-Frank


On Oct 14, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Michael Kay wrote:

>>
>> Jeff Dexter's blog entry this week talks about J4XQ.
>>
>> "What I'm talking about is J4XQ. If Java can have an XQuery API, why
>> shouldn't XQuery have a standard Java API."
>>
>> http://www.xquerynow.com/dexterblog/j4xq.html
>>
>> Has anyone in the XQuery world considered this?
>>
>>
>
> If they do, I hope they will
>
>   (a) read http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xslt11-20010824/, and
>
>   (b) understand why the effort was abandoned after a year's work.
>
> That's not to say it shouldn't be done; just that it shouldn't be done
> without knowing the history of previous failed attempts.
>
> It should be said that the problems were more political than  
> technical,
> though a good part of the politics was that a lot of people argued
> vociferously that it was a bad thing to do.
>
> Michael Kay
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