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 On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 07:47, Rick Jelliffe wrote: > Oh, we lost the one-size-cannot-fit-all debate before XML Schemas > started. Of course, > we get the dolorous satisfaction of being proved right afterwards. I realize that debate was lost, but the danger now is that it's a reinforcing system. Old territory here, but customers/users of XML-aware tools think that XSD is the blessed way to deal with XML. Most of them are working with data in a database, so they put those constraints in the schema, thus blowing the interoperability thing out the window because we're back to fixed-length field sizes. The tools all support XSD first, anything else second, so this reinforces the customer's assumption that XSD is the way. The reality is that most people on the planet think about objects. It took over 20 years to get them to change their mind about that, so it's not too surprising that most don't grok XML (it's only been 10), or if they do, they use it for very simple things and are done with it (e.g. no schemas at all). It's nearly always possible to turn reinforcing systems around, but the variable is how much it's going to hurt. Still, I think that whatever debates/arguments/discussions we have about what goes where, the end result is what sends the message to the masses. Maybe it's time to tweak the message a little. ast -- Join me in Dubrovnik, Croatia on May 8-10th when I will be speaking at InfoSeCon 2006. For more information, see www.infosecon.org. *************************************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by anyone other than the intended addressee is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any copies thereof from your system. *************************************************************************************************** 
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