Re: XML: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 21:59:33 +0100
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On 4 Oct 2004 13:39:19 -0700, gnuoytr_at_rcn.com (robert) wrote:
>as historical perspective, xml as B2B (and to a lesser extent B2C)
>implementation of data transport,
>actual experience, i suspect) that using the xml plumbing (parser, https,
>vpn, etc) would be cheaper and easier than existing EDI implmentations
>which, IIRC, are binary data streams over VAN/WAN. it wasn't that xml
>was even a better bullet, let alone a magic one.
ISTM it's not even a bullet. It's a software recruitment agency's wet dream. It has nothing to do with writing robust systems, and everything to do with having a shiny new buzzword with which to dazzle prospective clients. Not exactly worthless, but nothing we haven't seen before. In short: a lot of fuss about nothing.
Hmm ... perhaps XML is about to become my equivalent of Dawn's 1NF.
Lemming
-- Curiosity *may* have killed Schrodinger's cat.Received on Mon Oct 04 2004 - 22:59:33 CEST