| 3.7 Conclusion The extent to which XML is proven to be a strong contributor to the
organization's cost control and ability to respond to opportunities will be determined by
the degree of discipline of its implementation. In particular, we strongly discourage
non-trivial use of XML without active schema validation. A complete solution to
disciplined XML usage will go further, creating a single point of maintenance with a
repository of extended information beyond that supported by the implementation language,
and providing operational control of both program and document versions.
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