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Great discussion! John Cowan wrote: > Tim Bray's stuff on internationalization (back when it was a new > and radical idea) showed that the cost of i18n at development time > is about 10%, whereas after the fact it's about 100%. John, do you have a reference for this, that shows the numbers you cite? > This is a specific case of a more general point ... Again, it would be awesome to have a reference for this. Is this a documented principle that you are describing? > it is always simplest to hard-code all assumptions, but > it *will* force redesign further down the line, and the > more assumptions, the more redesign. In the case of the discussion at hand, the assumption is what? Is it the following? Assumption: The larger XML community will always use XML Schema so just create data models using XML Schema. /Roger
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