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On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 14:13, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > I find it exceedingly unlikely that a document whose identity and > intent is entirely unknown to me would land on my desktop. Even if it > did, I'd be very unlikely to do much with it other than to send it to > the 'ol bitbucket. > > Point being that 9 times out of 10, you have *some* idea of what the > document is, and some notion of processing, and that should be the > starting point, not sniffing at the document. I suspect that's the best breif summary of conventional XML processing I've seen. However, I must say that I hope at least keep the door open to that additional 1 in 10, and look seriously at the notion that we might well teach our local systems new formats incrementally. It seems like a good supplement to hard-wiring committee-built specs into everything. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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