Re: Xquery might have some things right
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 13:36:09 GMT
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"Corey Brown" <corey_at_spectrumsoftware.net> wrote in message
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> "Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message
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> > "Eric Kaun" <ekaun_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > > Yes, data exchange is a decent use of XML.
> >
> > I doubt it. You have System A which want to get some information from
System
> > B. How do you do that? Query it (what a surprise). The underlying
transport
> > beneath SQL connection doesn't really matter.
> No, you use simple publish and subscribe mechanisms. In which case
exchaning
> data with XML works quite well.
But it's just a format, whatever mechanism you use to exchange it. Publish and subscribe can be useful, but WHAT is published can be anything. XML is a wordy format, and doesn't get the parties involved out of the business of having to know the semantics of the data elements. Received on Fri Mar 05 2004 - 14:36:09 CET