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Phil -- Agreed. Companies, individuals or groups often have an "I have a better idea" attitude, and -- wrong OR RIGHT -- this is where the standard become non-standard <grin>. My point was that XML is a fantastic facilitator of communcation between disparate systems. Back to your point; when a person thinks "we need to tweak the standard so that it ..." ... perhaps, PERHAPS, that person needs to REALLY re-think their original assumption. That is, I'm perfectly willing to agree that the greater minds at IBM, Microsoft, Sun, etc etc are smarter than I am. I would be VERY VERY hesitant to mess with their work. There are other, more elegant solutions. -- Don Schenck Schenck Technical Consulting DonS@SchenckTech.com / www.SchenckTech.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Hall, Philip [mailto:phall@spss.com] > Sent: March 20, 2001 3:09 PM > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' > 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 > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to > MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: > david@midrange.com > +--- > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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