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  "title": "Schemas, Freedom, and Control",
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  "html": "<blockquote cite=\"URL\">\nI'll be at the Enterprise Architect Summit in Palm Springs next week,\non a couple of panels. One's entitled <a href=\"http://www.fawcette.com/conferences/eas/sessions.aspx#13SchemasWild\">Schemas in the wild: XML takes\non the vertical industries</a>, and the panelists are Jon Bosak and Jean\nPaoli. The single most important question I'd like to ask these guys\nis: how do we strike the proper balance between freedom and control?\nBy freedom I mean incremental and iterative evolution of data\nstructures in response to patterns of real-world use. By control I\nmean the predictable regularity enforced by a DTD or XSD.\n</blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"credit\" align=\"right\"><small>Source:<cite><a href=\"http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/10/07.html#a821\">Jon Udell's weblog, XML vocabularies: freedom and control</a></cite></small>\n\n</div>\n\n\n<p>\nFor quite awhile now, Jon Udell's been asking the same\nsorts of questions as I did in my <a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/blog/tech/rss_data_and_schema.html\">longwinded write-up yesterday</a>.\n</p>\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<p>shortname=schemas_freedom_and_control</p>\n",
  "body": "<blockquote cite=\"URL\">\r\nI'll be at the Enterprise Architect Summit in Palm Springs next week,\r\non a couple of panels. One's entitled <a href=\"http://www.fawcette.com/conferences/eas/sessions.aspx#13SchemasWild\">Schemas in the wild: XML takes\r\non the vertical industries</a>, and the panelists are Jon Bosak and Jean\r\nPaoli. The single most important question I'd like to ask these guys\r\nis: how do we strike the proper balance between freedom and control?\r\nBy freedom I mean incremental and iterative evolution of data\r\nstructures in response to patterns of real-world use. By control I\r\nmean the predictable regularity enforced by a DTD or XSD.\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<div class=\"credit\" align=\"right\"><small>Source:<cite><a href=\"http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/10/07.html#a821\">Jon Udell's weblog, XML vocabularies: freedom and control</a></cite></small></div>\r\n<p>\r\nFor quite awhile now, Jon Udell's been asking the same\r\nsorts of questions as I did in my <a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/blog/tech/rss_data_and_schema.html\">longwinded write-up yesterday</a>.\r\n</p>\r\n<!--more-->\r\nshortname=schemas_freedom_and_control\r\n",
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  "summary": "I'll be at the Enterprise Architect Summit in Palm Springs next week,\non a couple of panels. One's entitled Schemas in the wild: XML takes\non the vertical industries, and the panelists are Jon Bosak and Jean\nPaoli. The single most important question I'd like to ask these guys\nis: how do we strike the proper balance between freedom and control?\nBy freedom I mean incremental and iterative evolution of data\nstructures in response to patterns of real-world use. By control I\nmean the predictable regularity enforced by a DTD or XSD.\n\n\n\nSource:Jon Udell's weblog, XML vocabularies: freedom and control\n\n\n\n\n\nFor quite awhile now, Jon Udell's been asking the same\nsorts of questions as I did in my longwinded write-up yesterday.",
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