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At 3:11 PM -0400 6/6/04, John Cowan wrote: >Walter Perry, are you listening? Your Fichte has been found! I have no idea who Fichte is/was, or what his/her relevance is here, but I freely admit I learned a lot of this from Walter. Like a lot of developers, I didn't believe it at first since it was so contrary to everything I had been taught, and Walter was challenging assumptions I hadn't even realized I was making. But eventually it became clear that Walter was basically correct, once I actually started trying tom justify those assumptions, and once I started writing code to Walter's principles and saw that they worked. I don't agree with Walter 100%. I do find schemas to be occasionally useful tools for documentation and diagnosis. However, I do think that schemas should not be seen as strait jackets, outside the boundaries of which there be dragons. waiting to eat the unwary. I've just had too much success working with schemaless and even consciouslly invalid documents. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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