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9/27/2002 1:51:54 PM, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> wrote: > >I am beginning to believe that attempting to work >with self-descriptive systems for any given problem >in every case is a non-starter. Well-formedness >simply isn't enough for interoperability; portability, >yes, but not interoperability. I'm not sure if I want to touch this mess, but RSS might be considered a counter-example. Sheesh, the weblog syndicators don't even seem to care much about well-formedness, just enough syntax constraint to point everyone in more or less the same direction. Still, NewsIsFree.com and a whole bunch of other aggregators manage to do a decent job of extracting a reasonable amount of meat from the tag soup. This is, admittedly a REAL simple use case (they only look for a small number of tags in a very flat XML hierarchy) but seems to at least minimally prove the concept that well-formed XML is more than a "non-starter." Getting those folks to agree on a common schema is EMPRICALLY a non-starter :-) (Apologies to Eric and others who have labored in that vineyard!).
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