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Henrik Martensson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 20:19, Thomas B. Passin wrote: > >>Better to be good at xslt! > > > What would you have done if you had to deal with information from fifty > different sites, and all fifty made their own, frequently incompatible, > changes? (This is a far more common situation in my line of work than > having to deal with only one data provider.) > > Writing fifty different XSLT stylesheets does not sound like a good > solution. > It sounds pretty good to me, if I don't have a way to arrange for all of them to supply the same format. > I can understand your reluctance to require that the data provider > conforms to a particular schema when you are dependent on them, instead > of the other way around. It wasn't our reluctance, but the near (or total) impossibility. But note that in this case, unlike the second vignette I posted, we were working to a schema, in fact, two of them - theirs and ours. The fact that their schema itself had some technical errors that I had to correct (and informed them about), and that it was a little out of sync with the actual delivered format, tells me that they did not have a complete process in place for managing quality control. And this is not unusual. Here's the thing ... there is no one solution because all the cases are different. XML has a remarkable ability to cope with so many of these environments, which is perhaps one reason it has insinuated itself into so many places. In a case where there is a closely connected team, and all parties can be forced or pursuaded to use a given schema, you may be able to achieve everybody's conformance. Other cases are more Walter Perry-ish, and that approach is not an option no matter how desirable it would be. And there are all degrees in between. Cheers, Tom P -- Thomas B. Passin Explorer's Guide the the Semantic Web (Manning Books) http://www.manning.com/catalog/view.php?book=passin
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