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> Still, if someone was going to use XML in some capacity to > shoot missles > or aid in flying airplanes (which, given the increasing > variety of things > XML is used for, could happen soon!), One of the biggest mistakes is to assume that systems are only safety-critical if they physically control the hardware that is capable of doing the damage. I came across a stylesheet recently with a bug: it was designed to display out-of-range data in red, and this wasn't happening, because the code was doing a string comparison rather than a numeric comparison. I can think of many scenarios where this could have fatal consequences: admittedly they all have a human in the loop, but that's not guaranteed to prevent the disaster happening. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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