RE: Web apps on the AS/400

But you see what I mean.  Putting data into XML is fairly simply.  Taking it
out... yikes!  I have yet to see an XML document that is as simple as

<book>
  <chapter id="1">Loading the Gun</chapter>
  <chapter id="2">Cocking the Gun</chapter>
  .. 
</book>

Throw a schema or DTD that your parser also has to use and it complicates
things even more.  I wouldn't want to write an X.12 parser and definitly not
a XML parser that worked for everything.  But, I may try just for fun.  ;)

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@leif.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:26 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Web apps on the AS/400
> 
> 
> From: Stone, Brad V (TC) <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
> > The parser is one nifty piece of AI programming.  
> 
> You are overstating your case a bit. Parsing is a well-known
> (and long solved) problem in mainstream computing.
> Does not qualify to be called AI. And is generally
> not classified as such.
> 
> To say that parsing is AI is like saying that Al Gore
> invented the Internet   :-)
> 
> 
>  
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