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Bug 3530 - The need for a simple declarative update language
Summary: The need for a simple declarative update language
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Update Facility (show other bugs)
Version: Working drafts
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrew Eisenberg
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
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Reported: 2006-07-25 00:07 UTC by Michael Rys
Modified: 2006-08-24 20:11 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Rys 2006-07-25 00:07:40 UTC 
Recent discussions and requests seem to indicate that the update language taskforce is working on extending XQuery into a scripting/programming language.

Given the amount of time that it takes to get a specification finished, I strongly urge the working group to give us a declarative update language (and the transforms for XQuery) as quickly as possible and postpone any such programming language extensions to the next release. There is a vast consistuency out there that wants an interoperable update language that is declarative in nature, and not yet another web programming language.
Comment 1 Michael Rys 2006-08-24 20:11:23 UTC 
The Working group at its August 2006 F2F meeting decided that the XQuery Update Language will not include the XQueryP work, which may be considered as a seperate document on a different timeline.