** Reply to message from "Rick Jelliffe" <> on Wed, 13 Nov
2002 16:54:48 +1100
> Perhaps it should be a business question rather than an abstract one. Custom GUIs
> cost time and money and need a maintenance effort; they have a bad name for being
> slow, poor with large documents, and inflexible. But sometimes that might be warranted
> (i.e. for cashed-up departments, very static document types--like successful public schemas--,
> and small documents). However, by the same token, sometimes custom GUIs may be
> counter-productive.
Definitely. I have my own love/hate affair with GUIs. If I have to show
someone an XML Schema, I would much rather use XML Authority than Notepad. On
the other hand, Authority does things with namespaces in W3C XML Schemas that
other validators don't accept, and I had to stop people from using it to
prettyprint the Schemas I generate for MDDL. So here is a tool that in one
circumstance is a boon, and in another is a source of problems. There are no
silver bullets.
Cheers,
Tony.
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