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At 11:16 PM +0200 6/6/04, Ari Nordström wrote:
>What kind of system are you talking about? And where? 'cause I haven't seen
>many of the kind you're talking about either. In most systems I've seen in
>production, if you ignore the schema whenever you feel like it (provided that
>you can do it in the authoring environment, that is), you're going to mess up
>something, and a manual fix will be required.
You're worrying about issues that are rare in
practice, which was precisely my point. New
formats are rare enough that they can be handled
by manual intervention. And generally a new
format does indicate something important that
should be looked at by a person.
However, the vast majority of messages are not
new formats. They're the same old formats you've
seen before, and they can be recognized and
processed automatically.
If manual intervention were required for every
message, this approach wouldn't scale or work. In
practice, manual intervention isn't required all
that often after the system is initially
developed and deployed.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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