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> From: Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)
> 
> I think you are unfairly calling XML "clumsy" when in all actuality it
is
> so powerful that it can adhere to almost any situation as far as data
> transport and config files go.

Folks, you might want to move this philosophical discussion to another
place.  I vote for WEB400-L myself.  But in the meantime, Aaron, one
little remark: XML is simply an encoding method, inherently no better or
worse than any other.  You're too young to remember much about EDI, but
EDI was once touted as the great inter-machine communication method.
The problem with any such standard is that it quickly gets bloated with
lots of garbage.  At least EDI has a standards body; the XML community
is far less organized than that and it shows in the XML conventions.

350 characters of overhead for a simple SOAP message?  Most of which is
essentially the same for every message?  That's downright silly.  XML
and particularly SOAP are not the universal panacea.

Joe


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