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I'm not sure if this fits into Jeff's permatopic schedule http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200208/msg00554.html but we haven't talked about the evils of complexity in awhile :~) I was inspired to ask permission to re-raise this by http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/08/020808hnusenixcode.xml 'WHEN IT COMES to writing secure code, less is more. That was the advice passed down Thursday by security expert Paul Kocher, president of Cryptography Research, who told the Usenix Security Symposium here that more powerful computer systems and increasingly complex code will be a growing cause of insecure networks. Huge chunks of software such as Microsoft's Windows operating systems that have myriad features built in to take advantage of fast processors will perpetually have more flaws than security experts are able to uncover, he said. For this reason, programmers and companies should keep simplicity in mind when writing applications and only build in tools that appeal to 80 percent or more of users.' No direct mention of XML, but clearly it takes complex code to implement complex specs.
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