Re: Xquery might have some things right

From: Corey Brown <corey_at_spectrumsoftware.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:58:21 -0500
Message-ID: <e242c.47448$0l1.6619_at_bignews3.bellsouth.net>


"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message news:Mg32c.15$zW4.145_at_news.oracle.com...
> "Corey Brown" <corey_at_spectrumsoftware.net> wrote in message
> news:Se02c.16672$JN2.13942_at_bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> > Sure, that's why you need an AAIS (application to application
> interface specification),
> > otherwise how will you define the contract between one system and the
> other?
> >
> > XML does have "some" advantanges. Here's a short list:
> >
> > - It's human readable. Developers can visually check on communications
> between systems
> > simply by taping into the communications channel. Great for
> debugging too.
> >
> > - Senders and receivers don't have to be in perfect sync. That is,
> information can be added
> > at the transmitter that the receiver can simply ignore. This works
> especially well in a publish
> > subscribe scenario where the subscribers use the published output
> in different ways.
> >
> > Sure it's wordy and shouldn't over extended to do things that it was
> never intended to do.
> > But that doesn't mean that it's not useful for certain classes of
> computing problems.
>
> Corey, may I ask you if you ever write a query in SQL?

    Yes, of course, but what does that have to do with using XML as a message     protocol for publish and subscribe systems?

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