We have had some discussions about the cutting of XQuery from the .Net Framework in VS2005. Since some people felt that we have not given an official statement yet (weblogs are not official enough :-)) and there still seem to be some people that are not reading weblogs, we have published the official statement on the reasons for cutting XQuery from the .Net Framework on the MSDN XML devcenter. Here is an excerpt:
“We are writing this article and posting it on MSDN to put this decision in the proper context. We arrived at this decision after talking to key customers and partners as well as looking at the ETA for XQuery to become a W3C recommendation. “ Continue here...