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RE: Object Role Modelling (ORM) or UML or ?? for designing Schema s
- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>,"W. E. Perry" <wperry@fiduciary.com>, XML DEV <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:25:02 -0500
At 12:40 PM 2/14/01 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>If I order pizza, I expect pizza.
But would you expect to get pizza from a Chinese take-out restaurant?
I think you'd rather that they gave you a phone call (or electronic
message) if they didn't have a good way of processing your pizza request.
And what would you do if the delivery person showed up with the take-out
place's interpretation of a 'pizza'? You sent them the order, after all!
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