[xquery-talk] Questions about SQL Server 2005 and XML

[Frank Cohen]

<rant>With XQuery we're not talking about a protocol for document  
schemas, we're talking about a spec for a language. If Java took this  
long we would all be programming in C today - or maybe Cobol.</rant>
<author>Frank</author>
<ps>I would have typed this faster but the spec isn't finished yet.</ps>


On Jan 22, 2006, at 11:35 PM, Ken North wrote:

> Frank,
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>> I am pretty tired of waiting for the XQuery 1.0 spec to be final.
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> You may be experiencing personal frustration about the XQuery  
> timeline, but five
> years is by far not the longest development timeline.
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> The timeline to evolve GML into the SGML standard was 17 years.
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