Why You Won't See XSLT 2.0 or XPath 2.0 in the Next Version of the .NET Framework

Description:The XML team has recently started getting questions about our position on XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0. Yesterday my boss, Mark Fussell, posted about why we have decided to implement XQuery 1.0 but not XSLT 2.0 in the next version of the .NET Framework. Some people misinterpreted his post to mean that the we chose to implement XQuery 1.0 over XSLT 2.0 because we prefer the syntax of the former over that of the latter. However decisions of such scale aren't made that lightly.