RE: [xml-dev] What techniques do you employ to ensure that your data is precisely and unambiguously specified?

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RE: [xml-dev] What techniques do you employ to ensure that your data is precisely and unambiguously specified?
Michael Kay wrote:

> Being too careful can make things worse, because the longer and more 
> formal the spec, the fewer people will read it.

Apparently the W3C does not agree.  Consider:

      - The XML Schema 1.1 specification is 380 pages
         and  is formally written.

      - The XSLT 3.0 specification is 530 pages
        and  is formally written.


/Roger