Re: Xquery might have some things right

"Corey Brown" <corey_at_spectrumsoftware.net> wrote in message news:gZ_1c.46418$0l1.21653_at_bignews3.bellsouth.net...
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> "Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message
news:KkN1c.43$ia.170_at_news.oracle.com...
> > "Eric Kaun" <ekaun_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:bvM1c.21037$va.6147_at_newssvr31.news.prodigy.com...
> > > Yes, data exchange is a decent use of XML.
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> > 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.

Well, I was trying to be kind. Remember that "decent use of XML" is simply a comparison to "horrendous uses of XML," and wasn't comparing XML with other technologies and formats.

> 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 - 07:36:09 CST