From: Mikkel Bruun Date: 2001-11-23T00:27:17+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:26140] SV: XML conformance "there is no standard for breaking the spec"....very nice...I have to reemeber that one... So...was this a story..or a *nudge* *nudge* story??? Mikkel > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Tobias Reif [mailto:tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com] > Sendt: 22. november 2001 16:14 > Til: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org > Emne: [ruby-talk:26139] XML conformance > > > XML, conformance; a story. > > In a company, there's team A. The managers assigned them to author > 5000 XML documents in 1 month; a product catalog. The > teamlead, in the > face of the tight deadline, chooses an XML IDE that doesn't throw so > many errors at the authors, so they can do their work faster. > > They make the deadline, the boss is happy, and the documents > are handed > over to a team of developers, who transform the XML documents > to various > XML formats for different media: web, print, etc. > They too use tools that don't overdo it with unnecessary and esoteric > conformance; it's big fun, and they too finish their work quickly. > (Luckily, they use tools by the same vendor, from the same package.) > > The boss is very impressed, each team member gets a T-Shirt, and they > hand over their documents to the client, company B. > The clients calls minutes later: they can't use a single file. They > can't be read by any of their XML tools, because the > documents are not > well-formed. > They even tried some lax, non-conforming tools, but all choked. > (they were non-conforming in a different way than the tools > of company A; > > there is no standard for breaking the spec. > > ) > > Both teams would have to start from the beginning, but the client > contracted another company C. > > At company C, the developers *and* and the clients have fun. > > Tobi > > -- > Tobias Reif > http://www.pinkjuice.com/myDigitalProfile.xhtml > > go_to('www.ruby-lang.org').get(ruby).play.create.have_fun > http://www.pinkjuice.com/ruby/ >