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• Subject: Re: modeling, validating and documenting an xml grammar
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:08:11 -0400
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At 08:39 PM 6/18/2003 -0400, Rich Salz wrote:
>Perhaps folks really mean "this is the final straw, making XSD so
>complex that as validation-implementors we cannot stand for it."
>But that is not what they've been saying.

Perhaps we really mean that features which give schema developers a 
meaningless sense of control are dangerous.

Perhaps that's hubris to you, but acknowledging that the world is beyond 
the precise control of schemas seems like a useful form of humility.  And 
heck, that kind of humility might even reduce the level of conflict on 
these lists!

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