RE: Web apps on the AS/400

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
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