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Re: What is a rational user to do? (was RE: xsdvalid

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: What is a rational user to do? (was RE: xsdvalidation)
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 08:53:19 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> Mike Champion wrote:
> 
>>I lean toward a synthesis of the positions that John Cowan
>>and Walter Perry were taking earlier in this non-silly
>>thread: Tell your information suppliers what format
>>you would really and truly prefer them to communicate to
>>you in, but be prepared to "mine" whatever they send you
>>to extract the information that *you* need to do *your* job.
> 
> That seems like a very reasonable approach, 

Not only that, but it's kind of what's happening.  If I may indulge in 
horrid overgeneralization, there seem to be two kinds of XML projects: 
those where they send some emails and examples back and forth and are 
now in production, and those where they strike a task force to assemble 
the schemas, and the project is still in committee stage. -Tim

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