Re: [xml-dev] The triples datamodel -- was Re: [xml-dev] SemanticWeb permathread, iteration n+1

[Rick Marshall <rjm@zenucom.com>]

and if the schema changes, but not the xslt, and someone suffers 
financial loss - tax returns fail, orders lost, etc - who pays?

or will this be a whole new endeavour for lawyers? do i need extra 
profesional indemnity to cover what happens when you change something 
without telling me?

this thread is starting to worry me....

rick

Thomas B. Passin wrote:

> Henrik Martensson wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 20:19, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
>>
>>> Better to be good at xslt!
>>
>>
>>
>> What would you have done if you had to deal with information from fifty
>> different sites, and all fifty made their own, frequently incompatible,
>> changes? (This is a far more common situation in my line of work than
>> having to deal with only one data provider.)
>>
>> Writing fifty different XSLT stylesheets does not sound like a good
>> solution.
>>
>
> It sounds pretty good to me, if I don't have a way to arrange for all 
> of them to supply the same format.
>
>> I can understand your reluctance to require that the data provider
>> conforms to a particular schema when you are dependent on them, instead
>> of the other way around.
>
>
> It wasn't our reluctance, but the near (or total) impossibility.  But 
> note that in this case, unlike the second vignette I posted, we were 
> working to a schema, in fact, two of them - theirs and ours.  The fact 
> that their schema itself had some technical errors that I had to 
> correct (and informed them about), and that it was a little out of 
> sync with the actual delivered format, tells me that they did not have 
> a complete process in place for managing quality control.  And this is 
> not unusual.
>
> Here's the thing ... there is no one solution because all the cases 
> are different.  XML has a remarkable ability to cope with so many of 
> these environments, which is perhaps one reason it has insinuated 
> itself into so many places.  In a case where there is a closely 
> connected team, and all parties can be forced or pursuaded to use a 
> given schema, you may be able to achieve everybody's conformance.
>
> Other cases are more Walter Perry-ish, and that approach is not an 
> option no matter how desirable it would be.  And there are all degrees 
> in between.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom P
>

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