[jdom-interest] Re: Factories

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 5:58 PM +0100 3/1/04, phil at triloggroup.com wrote:
1/ You perfectly know what you're doing, because you're on such 
conditions that you can trust
Let me give you an example: you're writting an XML document to a 
database, and then read it back. By the meantime, nobody but your 
code can access the data.
Can't you trust the content and then bypass checks?

No, you can't. In order for this to be a reasonable assumption, you 
need at least three other conditions:

1. No one else and nothing else writes data into that database.
2. The data written into the database had been verified for 
well-formedness; e.g. that it does not contain nulls.
3. The database does not modify the data; for instance by turning 
linefeeds into NELs.



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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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