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Roger, I'd still quibble on this. "Other" is a dialog between the modeler or curator and the user. It's a dialog that asks "your model does not reflect my reality, but by incorporating this, you will meet that reality. Will you incorporate it?"
As was indicated in several comments on this thread - this is deeper than XML, and has to do with the nature of modeling itself. No model will ever be completely accurate, because it reflects the needs of the customers of the data, and that both changes over time and is domain dependent. In a way, one of the big changes in the last decade+ has been the shift away from the application developer determining the needs for that model and toward the consumer determining those needs, and that has profound implications for how applications are written. "Other" is simply one manifestation of that - do you have a mechanism in place to add a new resource to the data environment (because it is increasingly more than just a single text label), and who is responsible for curating that resource through the interface? It's one reason why so many UIs are so incredibly bad - they reflect on ease of development rather than reflection about the role of Other and how that plays out wiithin the data context.
Kurt Cagle Invited Expert, XForms Working Group, W3C Managing Editor, XMLToday.org 443-837-8725 On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote: Hi Folks,
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