Re: Benefits of validation

From: noah_mendelsohn@u...
To: "Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@g...>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:44:19 -0500

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On Feb 1, 2008 4:50 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...> wrote: > Can anyone point me to articles on the benefits of validation, which > are targetted at the lay person? > > Something that explains the reasons why schemas are needed, and why > it's a good idea to have a "contract" between two people that speak > using XML.

Well, it's not an article, and I'm guessing that much of it is aimed at a slightly more technical audience than you might have in mind, but in 2002 I gave a DevCon talk, the slides for which Sam Ruby has kindly posted on his Intertwingly blog at [1]. At least one of the slides nets out my views on that, though at a pretty high level. In case it's of help, the contents of the pertinent slide (#9) are:

What are schemas for?

* Contracts: agreeing on formats

* Tool building: know what the data will be before the first instance shows up
* Database integration
* User interface tools
* Programming language bindings

* Validation: make sure we got what we expected

Noah

[1] http://intertwingly.net/slides/2002/devcon/SchemaSecrets.ppt

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