Reuters
Henry S. Thompson
XML Schema, London 1999-12-15
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Why validate?
nA D. S. D. is a contract between producers and consumers
nIt provides a guaranteed interface
nProducers validate to ensure they are providing what they promised
nConsumers validate to check up on producers
äand to protect their applications
nApplication authors validate to simplify their task
äLeave error detection and analysis to the validating parser