RE: Web apps on the AS/400

["Hall, Philip" <phall@xxxxxxxx>]

> XML-RPC is well documented and a standard. Does not SOAP use XML?
> IBM is committing to open source implementations of UDDI, 
> which relies on
> XML.

These are al examples of one-to-many implementations of DTD's as are WML,
JSP taglibs, etc. In these cases the standards work, the 'one' creates the
DTD, and the 'many' use it and nothing else. 

Unfortunately, the other uses of XML have fallen into the many-to-many
ugliness of XML DTD 'standards' where many different sources, within the
same vertical market, have created many same but different DTD's for the
same thing. Just like, as Ken just pointed out, happens with EDI.

--phil
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