RE: XML and AS/400

[Scott Mildenberger <Smildenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll readily admit that I may not understand XML very well but I have been
recently been doing a little reading.  To me, it is just a different way of
formatting EDI.  It does format it with tags so that a browser can maybe
ignore it if it doesn't understand.  But, like EDI, to be real useful the
parties at either end need to have the same understanding of the data.  As
far as RPG accessing XML.  It is just formatted text which can definitely be
read/translated by RPG.  I work on software for a railroad and we have RPG
code translating the tremendous amount of EDI that we send/receive every
day.  We could do XML this way if we wanted, although if there is a parser
available that converts it to a more readily accessed format then that would
be easier.

I may be missing something but it seems to me that XML is just a different
way to format data, very similar to EDI.  It is just a lot more exciting
because it is 'new' and 'internet' and all those fancy buzzwords.  I have
seen little that XML does that EDI doesn't, especially when talking about
business to business transactions which is where XML is supposed to make a
big impact.  Maybe someone else is seeing the part that makes XML a real big
deal but to me it is just EDI formatted differently.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Williams [SMTP:Williamsc@technocrats.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 7:28 AM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: XML and AS/400
> 
> Read! Very interesting article. Is XML going to really have that much
> effect on us all? Will everyone be using it eventually?
> 
> If RPG will find it very difficult to access XML, what do you access it
> with, JAVA?
> 
> (Suggestion for D.G. How about a message board on the same page as the
> IMHO articles so that we can discuss the issues raised)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@iquest.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:26 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Cc: Don
> Subject: Re: XML and AS/400
> Importance: High
> 
> 
> Don,
> 
> What timing !
> 
> Read Phil Hall's "In My Humble Opinion" on Midrange-L's web site !!!
> 
>  http://www.midrange.com/imho/phil/200002.htm
> 
> Chuck
> 
> "Schenck, Don" wrote:
> 
> > Does the AS/400 support reading/writing XML?
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