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On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 01:48, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > On Monday 28 January 2002 07:49 pm, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > > XML seems to me like a great opportunity for reconciling the > > flexibility of human-to-human transactions and the received > > brittleness of computer-to-computer transactions. > > Agreed. We have a chance to do lot's of little point (on the spot) mappings. > > Here's a question though: who is responsible for handling variant mapping? > > a) I, as a producer of information, am obligated to make it available > to my target audience. > b) I, as a comsumer, am obligated to figure out what it meant. > > It obviously depends, but in general, I would place the onus on the producer.... I don't think there's a general means of fixing that responsibility. My mantra lately is "the producer advises, the consumer decides." Strong consumers can fix work on weak producers and vice-versa, but I think that's somewhat outside the range of issues XML practice itself can address. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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