Tools creating problems

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

At 06:38 AM 5/30/2003 +0100, Sean McGrath wrote:
>I tried that tack for a while but found that you still get into *awful* 
>messes downstream when writing processing code. Reason being that so many 
>tools from SAX APIs to editors to XPath processors fall over themselves to 
>"help" you expand your namespaces creating a royal P.I.T.A.

You mean tools can get in the way as well as help?  Even when the tools are 
built perfectly to the specification?

Wow.  That's heresy.  I like it.