RE: XML Attributes

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And the same problem is there.  All your hard work meant nothing.  XML
didn't save your world.

It was rhetorical.  It would mean something to anyone that it's happened
before.  It's happened where I am hundreds of times.  And not just XML.  TRW
isn't as easy as it made out to be.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Hall [mailto:hallp@ssax.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 4:53 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: XML Attributes
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > I agree, using a tool would be great.  But what if the person who is
> sending
> > you the data doesn't use a tool and the standards?  What if 
> they don't
> want
> > to change?  What if they are your customer and you have to 
> change your
> > ways!?
> 
> There is having a discussion, then there is having a 
> discussion for the sake
> of it. Your above statement can be countered (and as equally 
> useless) by;
> 
> What if they don't want to use X.12, they won't change, you 
> won't change,
> they'll take their business somewhere else, what are you 
> going do then...?
> 
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