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Re: Argument: Software design is important, data design is not

• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:16:39 +0000

>In fact, the design of data to be exchanged matters very little, as long as all the data that is needed exists. 

I'd advise you to wear your body armour when you tell that to the guy on StackOverflow who's struggling to extract anything useful from an XML dump of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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