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Re: Here's how to remove 'time' from a processing problem

• From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 15:19:57 +0000

On 21/12/2022 13:25, Roger L Costello wrote:

I have a program that processes XML files in a folder. Some of the XML documents contain data about a car, [...] At some point

I think, the wrong point.

the program reads in that XML document and begins processing it. The objective of processing is to output the license plate number if the car is stolen and "" (not stolen) otherwise. However, the document does not contain the necessary information to make that decision.
The information to make the decision arrives some time later,

This looks like a case of putting the cart before the horse.

So the desired processing behavior is this:

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  • Here's how to remove 'time' from a processing problem
    • From: Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org>