RE: RPG as a Web Service Consumer

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Oh give me a break.  Aaron, I'll let you in on a little secret: XML IS
TEXT.

So is a .gif or .jpg, but can you compare that to csv's?  No.  Just like XML
is not nearly the same as a csv.  Are they more alike than a .gif?  Yes.

<Joe>
Great, then feel free to quit talking.  Because 350 bytes a message is
important.  On the new wave of communications devices (cell phones and
the like) with effective rates of around 28kbps or less, 350 bytes of
overhead (700 for each round trip) means you can't even send five
messages a second.  That's a ridiculous tradeoff just so some Hiphop
Code Jockey doesn't have to actually write code.
</Joe>

Joe, just say that XML over broad band isn't that bad.  You can't dispute
that.  You can move the discussion to say that transferring XML with floppy
disks takes longer, but that is not what I was saying was a good use of XML.

Unless I am mistaken (just because I have only read about them and not used
them) there are separate standards for sending stuff to cell phones, PDA's,
RF's, etc. . . WML comes to mind.  


Aaron Bartell