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Re: Invalid XML

From: Andy Dingley <dingbat@----------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 9/1/2004 1:18:00 AM
On 31 Aug 2004 12:52:28 -0700, esthermstrom@y... (Esther) wrote:

>Could someone please clarify for me if I'm missing one
>of the finer points of XML, or are these people just idiots?

Hard to tell.  Is this even XML ?  If they're using SGML, then they
_might_ get away with this.

I'm loath to call them idiots (we haven't even been introduced, after
all) but the worst part of this IMHO is their (all too common)
treatment of an _example_ as a _specification_. This is just a very
bad idea - examples only describe one single instance, not the whole
problem domain. It's a good route to all sorts of obscure future
problem, and a particular bugbear of mine.

If you're specifiying the format of an XML document, use either a DTD
or (better) a schema. If you can't do either, or don;t know why you
ought to, then you might not be an idiot but you're certainly out of
your depth.

-- 
Smert' spamionam


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