Bit by Bit

[billroper]

I was wrong. My friend actually came back and put the fence posts into their holes while I was inside working and keeping track of the toilet installation. Now we just need to concrete them in place...

Meanwhile, I've been cleaning up some of my XML generation so that everything is reading and writing XML that looks like it was written with some set of guiding principles. The problem comes when you get to the point of XML documentation that says "Do it however suits you."

Well, yes, I can do that. I just want to avoid religious arguments once I set the format. :)

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[whl.livejournal.com]

Last place I worked, we'd agreed to make a schema for the XML, having suffered through not having one at the previous place (most of us had moved en masse when the company tried to move us to Pittsburgh). Then, we made validation against the schema one of the acceptance tests, and it started generating bug reports. "No, I can't just let you put your statements in in any order you choose; we agreed to have a schema!"