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

> Bah.  If the WG had followed the advice they got three years ago to 
> just abandon all the type-based elaborations and the tight 
> coupling to 
> XSD, then they would have shipped XQuery two years ago,

If the WG had followed all the advice they got three years ago then they
would have produced nothing whatsoever.

Many of us could have produced a better query language much quicker, but
only by *ignoring* the advice of others.

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