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RE: Quote of the day

• From: Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 14:48:33 +0000

Lessons that I learned from Michael's quote:

	When writing a specification, not all things
	need to be specified formally. Don't have
	spurious formality. However, there are some 
	things that need to be specified very rigorously; 
	for them, do specify them formally.

/Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2022 6:54 AM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Quote of the day

"Yes, working with the XSD specification is a nightmare; it's the toughest spec I've ever had to work with other than Algol 68, and unlike Algol 68, some of the apparent formality turns out to be spurious; when it gets to tricky things that ought to be formal, like whether two types are identical, the spec bails out."

-- Michael Kay

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