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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada (and also a remark on DTDs prohibiting economic
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Robert C. Leif <rleif@rleif.com> wrote:
:   Any one of the present competitors
: could have stopped Microsoft, if they made reliable well engineered
: products.  Instead the competitors use Java and XML DTDs.  When the economy
: functions correctly, stupid business men go broke.

I think it's not very smart to judge XML DTDs by narrowing one's
view down to records numeric medical data. 8-) Likewise, rockstable
proven software without much need to manually debug data streams can
profit from the use of a scheme like ASN.1.

-- Georg