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Re: Fwd: Not using mixed content? Then don't use XML

• From: Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@gmail.com>
• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
• Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 18:31:34 +0100

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote:
> On 4/9/13 1:11 PM, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
>>>
>>> I would argue for piling it all into business rule checks, with special
>>> emphasis on generating meaningful messages - not to mention an
>>> opportunity
>>> for human intervention so you have a sense of what's going weird.
>>>
>>
>> No.
>>
>> Because then you are at the mercy of some developer who could be in
>> another part of the world and may not even be a native speaker of your
>> language for parsing your business rules.
>
>
> Yeah.  You are.  You always are.
>
> Fortunately, the world is surprisingly full of mercy.
>

Good luck with running that argument past your organisations Risk
Management function.

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