[xquery-talk] XQ4J

[Michael Kay]

It's a long story, too long for this time on a Friday night. But a large
part of it was a strong campaign by people outside the WG who felt that W3C
should not be defining Java language bindings.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:talk-bounces at xquery.com] On Behalf Of Frank Cohen
> Sent: 14 October 2005 22:58
> To: talk at xquery.com
> Subject: Re: [xquery-talk] XQ4J
> 
> 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
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> >
> >
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