Minutiae
Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah: The thing however is that these details do matter and they are best dealt with up front. The aggregate waste of programmer effort in pursuit of minutiae might keep the profession in business but it surely isn’t sustainable.
Excellent post.
P.S. here is the link to my description of the xsd:boolean issue. In the first SOAPBuilders interoperability meeting, both the Microsoft and Apache implementations initially failed.