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

["Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

All of these are valuable features -- I remember discussing tuples
long ago - in 2011...

If there are no new standards then logically we will see new
extensions appearing -- often overlapping or even conflicting -- and
the resulting problems (confusion, difficult to choose) are not good
for the developer community.

For me, without the above features the language has not been specified
in its complete, logical entirety.


Cheers,
Dimitre



On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:44 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