[MisterBastahrd]

I learned this the hard way. I am the sole developer at the company I work for. I write code for 10 different web products. One of them receives inventory feeds from a myriad of different content providers, and most of these companies (with teams of developers) don't really know the first thing about proper xml design. I wrote a basic framework to do the bulk of the work for consuming their data, but the decisions they made run the gamut from just plain laziness to utter incompetence. Still, I'm not paid to critique their decision making process. I get paid to write the code that makes their data work with our system.