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Len, I think you're arguing in favor of the rule of law. I just don't think it's very easy these days to get people to face up to the sheer inconvenience of keeping civilization running, much less volunteer to bear any of the cost on their own budgets. It's always somebody else's burden, not theirs. Toward the end of the G.W. Bush administration, I had a bumper sticker on my car that read, "IMPEACH ALL SCOFFLAW PRESIDENTS". Since Obama's election, I've been, uh, unimpressed with the respect for the rule of law demonstrated by his administration. I'm not even bothering to put a new bumper sticker on my car; my rage is exhausted. It's the Zeitgeist, man. These are the Years of Deferred Maintenance for all the institutions of liberty. If somebody asks you why you're ignoring all the public and private law (including XML schemas) that should be constraining your behavior, the following explanation seems to work for the entire Executive Branch of the U.S. government, all U.S. telecom companies, and, I suspect, most federal contractors: "9/11. 9/11! 9/11? 9/11!! 9/11; 9/11. 9/11: 9/11, 9/11, ..." which, roughly translated, means, "It's inconvenient." > It's a messy world and gets messier the longer one ignores the rules. > Creativity and pipelines of data that has to be both correct by > construction and in compliance to enable decoupled processes do not > congeal happily or cheaply. > > len
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