Re: XML Parsing and other fine songs of the south

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Crothers" <bob2@CStoneIndy.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 2:21 PM
Subject: RE: XML Parsing and other fine songs of the south


> Bruce,
> You say:
> >>I don't know why you bothered with the MS stuff... <<
>
> He bothered with it because IT WORKS.  My question would be why did he
> bother with the IBM stuff??  I love my AS/400 as much as most on this list
> do.  But, IBM has sure been missing the boat with a lot of this stuff.


Maybe, but they (once again) don't follow the standards.
Anyway, my point was leaning in favor of the Java tools that are around,
that meet standards and comply with reference implementations.
The IBM stuff works too, the DB2 extender is sensitive to XML subtleties
(sic?), but half the free (and working) Java tools that work in the XML
space came from IBM in the first place.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - iSeries Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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