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  • To: David Megginson <david.megginson@gmail.com>
  • Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Streaming XML (WAS: More on taming SAX (was Re:[xml-dev] ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0))
  • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:10:26 -0500
  • Cc: XML Developers List <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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At 3:06 PM -0500 12/30/04, David Megginson wrote:


>It's not so much that, as the fact that they're guessing.  Inevitably,
>some parts of the complexity will be necessary -- life isn't always
>simple -- but without meaningful implementation experience, we don't
>know *which* parts, so the working groups put them all in just to be
>safe.

When in doubt, leave it out. It's much easier to add in missing 
pieces later, than to take something out that proves to be misguided, 
unnecessary, or just plain wrong.

-- 

   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=0321150406/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA




 

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