• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:28:56 +0000

> Fair enough. FWIW, my personal experience is the exact opposite: pointless, bloated, big design up-front, busy work which never gets anything done. But as always, YMMV.
>
I would say, putting a lot of design effort up front into creating a 
really elegant and compact foundation that will prove highly extensible 
is effort well spent. Putting a lot of effort up front into implementing 
all the features that anyone might ever want is effort wasted.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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