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And I'd rather have a spec that was unambiguous.

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> And I'd rather have a spec written in prose than a schema any day of the week. 
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> From: Joe English [mailto:jenglish@flightlab.com]
> Sent: Fri 10/24/2003 1:11 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] syntax, model
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> Now with sufficient intuition and guesswork, you can _probably_
> write software that _usually_ works _most_ of the time if all
> you have by way of a specification is a collection of sample
> inputs.  Personally, I'd rather have a schema (RNC format,
> if you please) and skip the guesswork.
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