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** Reply to message from "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...> on Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:54:48 +1100 > Perhaps it should be a business question rather than an abstract one. Custom GUIs > cost time and money and need a maintenance effort; they have a bad name for being > slow, poor with large documents, and inflexible. But sometimes that might be warranted > (i.e. for cashed-up departments, very static document types--like successful public schemas--, > and small documents). However, by the same token, sometimes custom GUIs may be > counter-productive. Definitely. I have my own love/hate affair with GUIs. If I have to show someone an XML Schema, I would much rather use XML Authority than Notepad. On the other hand, Authority does things with namespaces in W3C XML Schemas that other validators don't accept, and I had to stop people from using it to prettyprint the Schemas I generate for MDDL. So here is a tool that in one circumstance is a boon, and in another is a source of problems. There are no silver bullets. Cheers, Tony. ==== Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect mailto:abcoates@T... MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language) http://www.mddl.org/
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