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igraham@i... (Ian Graham) writes: >Of course in the organic world, mutatations are mostly failures, and >die off. Project managers seem to want higher probability of success >(at least on the timeframe of the project) ;-) . In the biological world, yes. In the human world, not necessarily. We have a lot better track record than random DNA changes. >> For the most part, though, I continue to hear "XML is an okay >> syntax, but still we must all agree on semantics precisely for >> anything to work", the same dispiriting story that's kept complexity >> as a barrier to sophisticated computing. > >No one wants to have they app crash for lack of handling some obscure >content model -- and I've certainly seen that happen a lot on the >project I'm working on. I Then write the apps so they don't crash when fed something they don't understand. Responding with "I don't understand this" is a good first step. >We need to make sure people use the 'right' approaches for processing >xml, so this doesn't happen. Unfortunately this is a different mindset >for designers and developers ... What would this "right" approach be? The semantic straitjacket?
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