On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, damorgan_at_x.washington.edu wrote:
> Mark C. Stock wrote:
>
>> "IANAL_VISTA" <IANAL_Vista_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9618BA80696FBSunnySD_at_68.6.19.6...
>>
>>> Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com> wrote in
>>> news:uhdjeg5em.fsf_at_hotpop.com:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hexathioorthooxalate apparently said,on my timestamp of 13/03/2005
>>>>>10:50 PM:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>What the heck do you think an XML schema is, or even a DTD. It
>>>>>>is the rules, the contract, that the data must adhere to. This
>>>>>>seems like SOMETHING to me.
>>>>>
>>>>>NO, most definitely NOT. It is a DESCRIPTION of the rules.
>>>>>It is NOT a way of enforcing the rules. For that, you MUST
>>>>>write code!
>>>>
>>>>This isn't true with Schemas. Your statement is about as wrong as
>>>>Hexathioorthooxalate's statement that one must right triggers and
>>>>procs to check RI. Sure, something must, but not the developer of
>>>>either an XMLSchema or a Relational schema.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Please post a working/reproducable example or a URL to same.
>> http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/xml/xmldb/XDBBasicDemo.zip
>> http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/xml/xmldb/XDBBasicDemo.pdf
>> both found on
>> http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/xml/xmldb/index.html
>> Daniel, Please describe your preferred architecture for the following
>> typical scenario: Customer X generates XML purchase orders (format
>> non-negotiable, we are one of 3000 vendors that receive the same
>> format) System R (which we are architecting and have full control
>> over) receives the XML document electronically, fulfills it, and
>> sends an XML response. What would you use for processing the
>> incoming XML document? How would you keep an official record of the
>> customer's order? What would you use to extract the data from the
>> incoming document? What would you use to generate the response
>> document? ++ mcs
>
> I think this is a perfectly valid use of XML.
> You are using it for information exchange between multiple systems.
Didn't you state that that was an abomination in some other message?
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Galen deForest Boyer
Received on Mon Mar 14 2005 - 18:36:03 CST
