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Re: syntax, model

• To: Joe English <jenglish@f...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: syntax, model
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 19:00:53 -0400
• In-reply-to: <200310242011.h9OKBpa21686@d...>
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At 1:11 PM -0700 10/24/03, Joe English wrote:

>Now with sufficient intuition and guesswork, you can _probably_
>write software that _usually_ works _most_ of the time if all
>you have by way of a specification is a collection of sample
>inputs.  Personally, I'd rather have a schema (RNC format,
>if you please) and skip the guesswork.

And then what do you do when the document doesn't adhere to the 
schema? The schema's a start, but not an end. Robust software does 
not assume the schema is actually followed.

-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA

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