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• From: James Robertson <jamesr@s...>
• To: "XML Developers' List" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:24:21 +1000

At 01:16 21/03/1999 , David Megginson wrote:

  |  > So in practice, we just ended up with about 5 DTDs that were very
  |  > close to each other.
  |  > 
  |  > Not a lot of work.
  | 
  | It depends, again, on the complexity of the project.  If there are,
  | say, a project manager, three UI specialists, a sysadmin, a DBA, ten
  | software engineers working on the DB and transformations, five DTD
  | consultants (with a DTD co-ordinator), and two publishing specialists
  | working in the chain, the difficulties of co-ordinating even small
  | changes become near exponential, especially if the team is scattered
  | across the continent (as is common in large enterprises).
  | 
  | It can be done (I know from my own experience), but it's quite
  | different from a situation where you and a couple of associates
  | control all of the parts of the chain yourselves, and the original
  | SGML's requirement for a DTD makes the problem that much harder.

Agreed.

But aren't you just saying: "very big jobs are a lot of work,
and are very complex"?

Wouldn't this be true if you were implementing DB solutions,
or three-tier architectures, etc?

In otherwords, why is XML any different here than SGML
(which was the original question)?

J

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