Re: Request for Primer

Paul Cotton replied in response to a request for a primer.
> No one in either of the WGs has proposed the need for such a Primer.  

Paul, 

I guess that shows the value of the specifications being open to public 
comment. If the WG members haven't already proposed a primer, it seems to me 
to be a surprising omission.

>In fact we are trying to make the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 language 
documents >themselves as "usable" and "approachable" as possible and hope 
this makes having >a Primer unnecessary.

Given the passage of time since I first raised the issue I will simply 
comment that, at least as judged by the November 2002 WDs, there is in my 
view a VERY long way to go to make the specification documents 
"approachable".

I reiterate my request for the WG(s) to consider producing one or more primer 
documents to significantly improve the level of approachability of these 
specifications.

Andrew Watt

Received on Tuesday, 4 March 2003 10:11:34 UTC