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| Sep 3, 2019 at 8:54 | comment | added | marstato | +1, This is the only real answer here. Its about having a unambiguous definition of what the data means as soon as more than one programmer is involved. | |
| Apr 13, 2013 at 18:29 | vote | accept | deucalion0 | ||
| Apr 13, 2013 at 12:18 | comment | added | deucalion0 | Not really because I never used the XML file until I had a Schema which was correct. I created a web application that uses XSLT to provide content to the XHTML pages from the XML file as a data source. I suppose I should have experimented but at that point I just took for granted it had to be valid, end of story! | |
| Apr 13, 2013 at 12:15 | comment | added | thorsten müller | @deucalion0, you must have seen a few things crash into your face to value the small details :) | |
| Apr 13, 2013 at 12:14 | comment | added | deucalion0 | Thanks Thorsten that makes a lot of sense, its good to read actual reasons on why its important to validate XML! :) | |
| Apr 13, 2013 at 12:12 | history | answered | thorsten müller | CC BY-SA 3.0 |