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

[Fraser Goffin <goffinf@gmail.com>]

>> (And how long is the schema good for?  A given set of documents?  More?)

Probably a bit longer than the Word document and definitely more that
a forgotten conversation especially for those with selective memory
and expensive lawyers !

We all need to design for change. It's possible to do that in XSD as
it is for any other type of interface spec (unless you prefer
immutable specs .. Well it's clear that you don't, nor do I).

Fraser.

On 09/04/2013, John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Simon St.Laurent
> <simonstl@simonstl.com>wrote:
>
>
>> That qualifies as a neat reversal of polarity.
>>
>> Just don't cross the streams!
>>
>> (And how long is the schema good for?  A given set of documents?  More?)
>>
>>
> If it comes from $EMPLOYER's master content-neutral repository, it should
> be good for quite a while.  Of course, we don't actually export those forms
> outside $EMPLOYER, but we do have public schemas (some of which we write,
> some of which exist already, like Atom) for actual deployment.
>
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