On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Jim Melton <[email protected]> wrote:
> In passing, I would like to observe that the title of the W3C Working > Group being discussed is "XML Query Working Group" and the charter of that > WG speaks of developing a query language for XML. In fact, the language > developed by the WG is called "XQuery: An XML Query Language". While the > WG, and its participants, understand the importance of JSON and have as a > goal integration of support for querying XML data along with JSON data, the > name and charter of the WG have not been changed to "JSON Query WG". > > Might that be because JSON (for all intents and purposes) did not exist at the inception of the WG. I mean it's not called the SQL Query WG either but the WG did have SQL as a reference point because relational data formats were around and relevant at the time. So ...... That said I do empathise with both sides of this argument.
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