Re: [xml-dev] It is okay for things to break in the future!

[Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org>]

Michael Kay wrote:

> So you're seriously suggesting that just because no employee
> has ever earned a bonus of more than $1m, or has had a
> surname longer than 20 characters, your schema should
> impose these as upper limits?

Absolutely.

If the current worldview is that, then those should be the limits.

In my opinion, the "Golden Rule of Validation" is this:

	Do not treat invalid data
 	as valid.

/Roger