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> > Believe me. I've done a lot of work with data transfer > between different > companies. And the kinds of issues that XML claims to solve > are the least > of our worries. Some of them can't get a CSV file right (they randomly > change date formats) - although a schema validator would pick that up > earlier than our date parsing function does,it'd still be > broken until we > fixed the date parsing function (and at least we don't have to try and > update a regexp in a schema to allow for their new date > format every time > they change it :-). If they can't get a CSV correct (random change of > delimiters!), their chances of producing well formed XML aren't that > great :-) > Once again, you're treading in places I've been. When they call me 'cause it ain't workin', I can count pointy brackets on my fingers and see the problem. I have to mung the CSV with a computer to figure it out. Then I scan the source code for "<foo>" and "</foo>" and have the thing fixed before I could have found the off-by-one in three nested loops that only print ",". Frank
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