RE: RE: XML vs. Name Value pair

Multiple orders was just an example of having one repeating structure within
another.  For instance within our corporation we can have passed multiple
prices and item numbers because we store it at the customer level, point
company level, and prod company level.  And being a printing company we also
have a lot of text within each item telling us what to print on the product.

Name value pair looses it's strength fairly quickly when you get into
complicated scenarios (and there not even that complicated if you go back to
your example of a relation database structure).  It gets to a point where
you say, "Do I want to use a widely accepted industry standard like XML or
do I want to recreate this process for each method I receive orders?"

XML has a lot going for it besides being a semi buzzword.  There is _a lot_
of functionality being added to it constantly.  I can't say how long it will
be around, but it will definitely be around for the immediate foreseeable
future.


<Brad>
Who wants to put forth the effort, make source available
only to have it criticized because:

"Its only RPG" or
"You whould use DOW instead of DOU" or...
</Brad>

I wish I had that problem.  I can't even get anybody to help with the code
outside of my corporation.  Open source within the RPG community is kinda an
oxymoron.  We should instead call it "Free tools within the RPG community".


Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:19 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] RE: XML vs. Name Value pair 


On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:45:10 -0600
 "Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What happens if the request contains multiple orders?
>  How do you say that
> > LineItem1 belongs to the first or second order?  Now
> you are going to have
> > to write some nifty parsing routines because parentage
> is going to be a
> pain
> > in the butt.  You will most likely have to build in a
> multiple nested
> array
> > structure within your name value pair names or qualify
> the heck out of
> your
> > names (&Order1_Item1=1234).

No, you only get information on order at a time.  Why try
to drink from a firehose?  

What if you had 100000 orders.  Are you going to spend 45
minutes building a 50meg XML file and send that across?
 No.  

Again, breaking it up logically makes sense here.  
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