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[Michael Champion] >Gaack! OK, "somewhat" less of an issue, but alarm bells go off in my head when >I hear something that sounds to me like "Pay no attention to the mess behind the >curtain, the great and powerful Wizard will guide you." Uche exposed the pitfalls of relying on wizards http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7213 ... Yup. Wizards should be a convenience not a substitute for a conceptual model of what is going on in any syntax. Wizards can be a seductive trap. http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200206/msg01068.html Its that human-readability thing again. There is great value in human-readability. Jettison it, and you are on a slippery slope towards loosing ownership over your own conceptual models of your own data. You many think you own it but you don't. You will be a slave to the tools rather than the other way around. Not good. Not good at all. Sean http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com
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