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