Re: Fwd: [xml-dev] Not using mixed content? Then don't use XML

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

On 4/9/13 1:11 PM, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
>> I would argue for piling it all into business rule checks, with special
>> emphasis on generating meaningful messages - not to mention an opportunity
>> for human intervention so you have a sense of what's going weird.
>>
>
> No.
>
> Because then you are at the mercy of some developer who could be in
> another part of the world and may not even be a native speaker of your
> language for parsing your business rules.

Yeah.  You are.  You always are.

Fortunately, the world is surprisingly full of mercy.

Thanks,
-- 
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/