Re: [xsl] Watch "Michael Kay (Saxonica): Standards update: XSLT 3.0" on YouTube

["Alan Painter alan.painter@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tuples!!!!!

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 11:44 PM, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> > Agreed, but it would be good not to confuse the readers -- this video
> > is *not*  from XML Prague 2018 -- it is one ore two years old.
>
> Yes, thank you for pointing this out to people.
> >
> > Someone, please, correct me if I am wrong: it seems that at this
> > year's XML Prague 2018 there was no Standards Update by Dr. Kay --
> > right or wrong?
>
> Correct. There were updates on various topics such as XProc from various
> other people though.
> >
> > And it was a bad news to me that there is no W3C XSLT Working group
> > anymore :(   Again, please, correct me if I am wrong.
> >
>
> I think it's good news that the group has been able to declare its mission
> accomplished. XSLT now does what the vast majority of users need, and
> standards groups should not continue tweaking a language just because they
> enjoy the work.
>
> Of course, there are things I would still like to do: tuples, named type
> aliases, array constructors, for example. But there are diminishing returns
> in adding things, especially when the number of implementors has dropped to
> one or two.
>
> Actually the group is not quite disbanded yet: we are still meeting
> occasionally to handle errata. But no new development is planned.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica