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One of the first rules any data base programmer learns is that, by its very nature, data is dynamic. Therefore, any code acting as the enterprise's conduit to that data, whether it's C/C++, Visual Basic, or Java, needs to be dynamic in its ability to incorporate the changes the data reflects. Enterprises using a great deal of code to manage data create more work for the engineers who are responsible for that code. What's been true of the nature of data in hierarchical and relational databases in the past is now true for the generation of programmers working with XML today.
While XML is universally hailed as the most open methodology for describing and declaring data, technologists and vendors are still trying to find the means to implement the data the standard provides--particularly as the standard has continued to evolve and become more powerful. Two years ago the power and scalability of XML schema files wasn't even being discussed; DTD files were the standard. It's as if the rule should be changed now to say that the code managing the data has to...
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