[Dev] PyCon Report

[Nicholas Bastin]

On Mar 31, 2005, at 1:14 AM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:

> one more pycon report:
> (http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ 
> KatiePyConReport20050330)
>
> Sprints
> -------
> I found the sprints to be very rewarding, a good use of two days. We  
> split up into two groups, where we had one or two volunteers and one  
> or two osaf helpers in each group. One pair worked on a delicious  
> parcel and one pair worked on a flickr parcel.
>
> Lessons learned about writing chandler parcels
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> (+) Debugging xml is a real pain. Watching people try and find a typo  
> in a namespace really makes one wince.

I don't really know anything about the internals of Chandler, but don't  
you have a schema?  If you have schemas for each kind of XML document  
that you need to produce, debugging is pretty easy - the validator will  
tell you what is wrong with your document.

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Nick