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Simon St.Laurent wrote: > Mike Champion wrote: > >>I lean toward a synthesis of the positions that John Cowan >>and Walter Perry were taking earlier in this non-silly >>thread: Tell your information suppliers what format >>you would really and truly prefer them to communicate to >>you in, but be prepared to "mine" whatever they send you >>to extract the information that *you* need to do *your* job. > > That seems like a very reasonable approach, Not only that, but it's kind of what's happening. If I may indulge in horrid overgeneralization, there seem to be two kinds of XML projects: those where they send some emails and examples back and forth and are now in production, and those where they strike a task force to assemble the schemas, and the project is still in committee stage. -Tim
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