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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > At 10:44 PM +0200 6/7/04, Henrik Martensson wrote: > >> The problem is that manual intervention is required every time someone >> has added new tags arbitrarily. > > > Which I continue to maintain is not a big deal because it doesn't > actually happen that often. After the first couple of weeks of running a > system, you've typically handled well over 99% of the messages your > receive, and a system can easily run unattended for days, weeks, or > months before something unexpected is encountered. All this talk of applications that flag for human intervention when incomprehensible data appears might just be acceptable when the application is a big installation that has a dedicated support staff anyway, but when it's something like: > In many cases, it's enough to know that all the information you need is > there. You really don't care is someone has thrown in additional markup. > This is how web browsers operate for example. ...a web browser that gets deployed on millions of random machines all over the place, then instead you get developers having to test their HTML against a list of major browsers, and being wary about including things like MathML, SVG, Java, Flash, etc. in their sites. It appears that "in the large", these kinds of systems tend to end up constraining the producers of content to a schema ("works in IE") anyway. ABS
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