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On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 16:33 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:37:19 -0700, Uche Ogbuji
> <Uche.Ogbuji@fourthought.com> wrote:
>
> > Such scorn easily goes both ways. The next time I take a plane I'll
> > cross my fingers that the fly-by-wire designers did not trust their
> > event/response loop to cloistered queries written for a declarative
> > engine designed by a grinning third party.
>
> I find the airplane example interesting, since I just spent the
> morning with my head stuck under an airplane cowling (burned-out
> starter solenoid). Obviously, my Piper is fly-by-loose-cable rather
> than fly-by-wire, but what makes airplane systems safe -- whether
> they're mechanical or electronic -- is not error-free design and
> implementation, but an enormous amount of redundancy.
Very good point. Permit me to work a bit of a tangent (normal?) on it
by saying that I'm glad there is such a healthy redundancy on approaches
to XML processing. A thousand blooming flowers rather than a blessed
one or two ensures healthy propagation of the species.
--
Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com
Use CSS to display XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss-i.html
Full XML Indexes with Gnosis - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/08/py-xml.html
Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286
UBL 1.0 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think28.html
Use Universal Feed Parser to tame RSS - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipufp.html
Default and error handling in XSLT lookup tables - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook.html
A survey of XML standards - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand4/
The State of Python-XML in 2004 - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/10/13/py-xml.html
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