Re: [xml-dev] Include data that may be objectively generated someday?

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

cbullard@hiwaay.net scripsit:

> Don't make law you can't enforce.  Don't create requirements you cannot 
> prove are necessary to the consuming process.

Well, that's fine if you know what the consuming process is, or at least what
it expects.  But often you don't: you are publishing, and you don't know who
will subscribe.

-- 
John Cowan    cowan@ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion
that optimum or inadequate performance in the trend of competitive
activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity,
but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be
taken into account. --Ecclesiastes 9:11, Orwell/Brown version