Software Engineering discussion

This chapter nicely describes a set of steps on the road to optimizing XML verification. While I don't have a strong enough XML background to appreciate the nuances between parsing and verification, there is enough meat here to see what needs improving and how it can be improved. I think that the Java package architecture issues make an interesting side note too.

I wasn't very excited to read this chapter, but I was suprised and ended up enjoying this chapter.

I've never written code for an XML validator, but the code samples looked suprisingly familiar. I have written very similar code for similar purposes completely unrelated to XML. Seeing some of the code samples hooked me back in to this chapter looking for solutions to issues that I had wrestled with in other areas.

Connecting with the perspective and need to solve this problem really makes a difference in whether or not I care about reading a chapter.