[xquery-talk] [xml-dev] Re: [xml-dev] Mistakes made in the design of XQuery 3.1

[Ihe Onwuka]

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Jim Melton <jim.melton at oracle.com> wrote:

>  In passing, I would like to observe that the title of the W3C Working
> Group being discussed is "XML Query Working Group" and the charter of that
> WG speaks of developing a query language for XML.  In fact, the language
> developed by the WG is called "XQuery: An XML Query Language".  While the
> WG, and its participants, understand the importance of JSON and have as a
> goal integration of support for querying XML data along with JSON data, the
> name and charter of the WG have not been changed to "JSON Query WG".
>
>
Might that be because JSON (for all intents and purposes) did not exist  at
the inception of the WG.

I mean it's not called the SQL Query WG either but the WG did have SQL as a
reference point because relational data formats were around and relevant at
the time.

So ......

That said I do empathise with both sides of this argument.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://x-query.com/pipermail/talk/attachments/20150516/e7ecefb5/attachment.html>