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Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:
> The fallacy here is that a document has some sort of processing
> expectation, but this is simply not true in the heterogeneous world
> of the Internet. The document is what it is, and will be processed
> differently by different actors. I likely do not want to do the same
> thing with the same document as you do, nor is it necessary that I do
> so. The demand that we provide and adhere to schemas is often little
> more than a demand that we process documents in only certain
> preapproved ways. That is a fundamentally limited perspective. It may
> work within one program or a small organization. However, it does not
> scale to the needs of large organizations and groups of organizations
> with different, unique objectives.
Walter Perry, are you listening? Your Fichte has been found!
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Value constraints we / Express on the fly." jcowan@reutershealth.com
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Abracadabralike / schemas must die!" http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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