<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></blockquote><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">See above. You get inputs from lots of different directions, and they are all valid perspectives.</span></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Com’ on MIchael. Stop running around the bush. I hate hypocrisy in technology.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Botton line is: as a result of what W3C did with XQuery 3.1, they created more harm them good overall for the industry.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>And this: for both the XML community AND the JSON community.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>For the XML community: they’ll be hated and avoided even more they used to be, and more and more isolated, and</div><div>For the JSON community: they’ll avoid anything related to XQuery like scary evil, which means that they’ll design silly query languages </div><div>by themselves (see Cassandra, see Mongo, see BigTable….) for 15 years before finding some decent solution.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Great.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks for your contribution.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Dana</div></body></html>