| Petitions asking Microsoft to do or not do something are all the rage these days, starting--in recent memory--with the infamous VB6 and VBA petition. Another recent petition begs Microsoft to continue torturing C++ developers with IDL. (I truly thought that one was a joke, and still am not really sure.) And a petition seems to get extra points if MVPs sign it, whether that MVP has any expertise in the subject area or not. While I have my doubts that such petitions are effective for more than something to talk about on blogs, there is another petition on the Web waves. This one is to beg Microsoft to put XQuery back into version 2.0 of the .NET framework. They announced some time ago (late last year) that because the XQuery spec was so far from finished it wasn't worth putting it into the framework. The biggest problem is that whatever they implement now is unlikely to perfectly match the final spec, so they'd have to forever support the non-standard stuff. Kind of like they did with XDR, their XML schema spec that became part of the W3C XML Schema spec. Fortunately, the SQL Server folks are not bound by the same kinds of backwards compatibility issues as do the framework folks, as Michael Rys explains. So become part of the hip, petition-wielding crowd today! But be wary...if you have any ties to the company, they may not like you any more, as Bill Vaughn found out!
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