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At 11:16 PM +0200 6/6/04, Ari Nordström wrote: >What kind of system are you talking about? And where? 'cause I haven't seen >many of the kind you're talking about either. In most systems I've seen in >production, if you ignore the schema whenever you feel like it (provided that >you can do it in the authoring environment, that is), you're going to mess up >something, and a manual fix will be required. You're worrying about issues that are rare in practice, which was precisely my point. New formats are rare enough that they can be handled by manual intervention. And generally a new format does indicate something important that should be looked at by a person. However, the vast majority of messages are not new formats. They're the same old formats you've seen before, and they can be recognized and processed automatically. If manual intervention were required for every message, this approach wouldn't scale or work. In practice, manual intervention isn't required all that often after the system is initially developed and deployed. -- 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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