Sebastian Hammer wrote:

> Note btw that XQuery (or did, last I looked) postulates both a
> human-friendly syntax and an XML encoding.

Yes but  they may never get around to the XML encoding; I don't think they've
given it a moments thought yet. The human-friendly faction is much stronger than
the XML-encoding faction within the w3c, as far as I can tell (Mark Needleman
perhaps can provide more insight on this).

--Ray