Re: [xml-dev] How to be nimble, agile in the face of changing technologi

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

> Fair enough. FWIW, my personal experience is the exact opposite: pointless, bloated, big design up-front, busy work which never gets anything done. But as always, YMMV.
>
I would say, putting a lot of design effort up front into creating a 
really elegant and compact foundation that will prove highly extensible 
is effort well spent. Putting a lot of effort up front into implementing 
all the features that anyone might ever want is effort wasted.

Michael Kay
Saxonica