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8/1/2002 11:23:59 AM, "I-Lin Kuo" <ikuoikuo@h...> wrote: > > > One major point raised in discussion is that there is a bias against the >use of "ANY". A DTD with "ANY" would be viewed as unfinished, and would be >an obstacle to having our DTD approved by an organization such as OASIS. In my humble opinion, a DTD with "ANY" simply acknowledges the reality that the world is complex, confusing, and ever-changing, and that you have to deal with that fact. You need to find the right tradeoff between rigid structure and flexibility for your application. Best practices aren't well enough understood in this area for anyone's biases (including mine!) to be taken all that seriously. Various web/xml technology weblogs are vigorously debating this general issue (loose vs tight coupling .. in the context of web services, but I think the issue is more general) as we speak. You might want to follow the debate to see if it gives you any insight. See for example http://radio.weblogs.com/0101679/stories/2002/03/15/copingWithChange.html http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2002/07/29.html#a50 http://radio.weblogs.com/0101679/ You have to scroll around, follow the various links, find the beginning of the threads, etc. to make sense of of all this, of course.
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