Re: [Exist-development] How 'at-relative' extention of the import clause that will facilitate module sharing

[James F. <jam...@ex...>]

Hello Thomas,

I push xquery well beyond its intended limits most days, so you are
preaching to the 'converted' for me and for most folks on this list ;)

As for the functionality of 'at-relative', sure it can be useful and there
are several ways to implement it. ... I am against any ways that make a new
language versus staying within the boundaries of xquery as defined by the
W3C which is why I suggested using options.  If we implement and someone
uses 'at-relative' then we make a users xquery non portable ... I guess
thats not a problem for you but it will be a problem for others.

You are right that working groups at the W3C are slow but I feel that xquery
v1.1 has some momentum and would once again suggest you submit your comments
... why not put trust in the people who created the language in the first
place to get it right a second time ?

I think the issue you have is timing, e.g. you want this functionality now,
to summarize you can:

1) the nice thing about open source (versus other vendors who are not open
source) is you can do it yourself now

2) ask someone to do it for you

3) pay someone to do it for you

option 1) depends on you,
option 2) if I was to do it I would do it the way I think is best
option 3) all of use exist dev people do paid for work on eXist as well.

Great to see someone showing their passion for the language and just wanted
to say we are both on the same side!

hth, James Fuller