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BigBison
December 19th, 2007, 18:49
"Controlled vocabulary!", the spokesperson said.

"Precisely", replied Master Foo, reaching for his tea cup.

A shocked silence descended.

"Have we toiled in vain Master Foo?".

"No. You have arrived at a very important place. A large repository of document dukkhaa opens up before you. Go now. Revisit your hierarchical document structures. Be not afraid of open content models. Most importantly of all, look at Schematron and ask yourself what parts of your structural rules are better expressed outside of a hierarchical schema rather than within it. Embrace the controlled vocabulary. Do not fight it. It is stronger than you are and it has Murphy's Law on its side."

The quartet took their leave. Silent now. Their brows, furrowed an inch deeper than when they had arrived.

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