RE: [xml-dev] Why *is* XQuery taking so long?

> Are you guys just talking about read-only XQuery?  Are we 
> going to have to
> wait another 5 years to get read-write support in XQuery?

Yes, the language which Tim Bray described as an attempt to solve all the
query problems at one go is indeed a read-only query language.

Sometimes, when you get attacked from both directions at once, you feel you
might have got the balance about right.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/