• To: "'Michael Champion'" <michaelc.champion@g...>,"'Henry S. Thompson'" <ht@i...>
• Subject: RE: Is the XML Schema Test Collection still alive
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:39:03 +0100
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <e3a5cb2c05041409025fd6d908@m...>
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> I generally agree, except that more and more tools are forced to add
> "buggy tool compatibility modes"  to make this happen with minimal
> customer pain. 

That's a road to ruin. It only prolongs the pain. 

Conforming to the schema spec may be hard, but conforming to another
implementor's undocumented and changing bugs is completely impossible.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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