Re: [xml-dev] [OT] Re: [xml-dev] Lessons learned from the XML experiment

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

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> The question stands:
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> What can we learn about the design of XML from an XML web service
> developer's modeling a null value as the string "null"?
> 

I think the only thing we can learn is that there are very many bad programmers in our profession, and some of them misuse XML.

With a bit more analysis we could try and determine some of the factors in XML that tend to lead bad programmers to misuse it. From my experience, I don't think this particular blunder would feature in the top 10 list of common errors.

Michael Kay
Saxonica