- From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:37:44 +0800
- To: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
- Cc: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>, www-xpath-comments@w3.org
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 09:26:46AM -0600, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote: [...] > Perhaps I am wrong to say neither of us will change the other's mind; you have > made me consider seriously for the first time that if it's impossible to persuade the > responsible WGs to fix the problems, then it may be better to ask W3C to > withdraw the XPath 1.0 spec and deprecate its use in favor of the XDM 2.0 and > 3.0 specs, which do a better job and which the responsible WGs are more > willing to maintain. That would be a very serious mistake in my book. A lot of implementations, tools and software is based in XPath 1.0 (including my own code and a lot of software using it) and marking it as deprecated or withdrawn will let that code base without a reference. I would actually call this completely unreasonnable, and for absolutely no good reason, and would in no way improve the situation. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veillard@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/
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