Great discussion!
John Cowan wrote:
> Tim Bray's stuff on internationalization (back when it was a new
> and radical idea) showed that the cost of i18n at development time
> is about 10%, whereas after the fact it's about 100%.
John, do you have a reference for this, that shows the numbers you cite?
> This is a specific case of a more general point ...
Again, it would be awesome to have a reference for this. Is this a documented principle that you are describing?
> it is always simplest to hard-code all assumptions, but
> it *will* force redesign further down the line, and the
> more assumptions, the more redesign.
In the case of the discussion at hand, the assumption is what? Is it the following? Assumption: The larger XML community will always use XML Schema so just create data models using XML Schema.
/Roger
