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

["Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2018-02-11 at 01:29 +0000, Dimitre Novatchev
dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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.

it's possible, but we don't have a good model for funding future
standards work when there aren't implementors showing up.

But as the good Dr Kay says, it's actually in a way a success that the
WG is dormant, in errata-mode, as with XQuery and XPath.

Liam

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