On Oct 18, 2004, at 1:08 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
> 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.
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, and they would
have discovered that the market apparently cares more about update
facilities than it does about schema-driven querying, and they could be
building that right now. -Tim
