Re: Web apps on the AS/400

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

the beauty of standards is that there are so many to choose from...
every man his own !
----- Original Message -----
From: Hall, Philip <phall@spss.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 2:09 PM
Subject: RE: Web apps on the AS/400


> > 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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