Xquery requirements: performance?

I note a complete absence of the words "performance", "speeed",
"index", and "sublinear" in the Feb. 15th 2001 Query Requiremnets
document.  Is it the case that the XQuery activity is oblivious
to issues of indexing and retrieval performance?
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Received on Monday, 11 February 2002 12:40:24 UTC