RE: Web apps on the AS/400

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was with you up until the "self-describing" part.

Sure, to humans it is, but those tags don't mean squat to a computer without
a parser and someone telling it what to do with the data.  

The parser is one nifty piece of AI programming.  The easier something is
for humans to read, the more AI will be needed for a computer to read it.
My .05.  (Greenspan only went a half point, so I need to raise my rates).

Brad

> It's not really a "connection" that's relevant. View XML as a 
> document, not 
> a data path. You produce XML much as you might produce an 
> export file. It's 
> really the same concept. It's just that the document is self 
> describing and 
> can contain data element relationships in addition to data. 
> The recipient 
> can process that data, and include (related or not) data from 
> other XML 
> documents to construct views, aggregates and lots of other neat stuff.
> 
> 
> Pete Hall
> pbhall@execpc.com
> http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/
> 
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