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  3. March 2004

RE: RPG as a Web Service Consumer

> From: Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)
> 
> >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 it's not text.  It's encoded binary data.


> Joe, just say that XML over broad band isn't that bad.  You can't
dispute
> that.

700 bytes of overhead for a message sucks at any speed, Aaron.  That's
the problem with the latest generation of coders: performance has taken
a back seat to pumping out more bloated code, and that's why we have
programs that require 2GB of memory to run.


> WML comes to mind.

Dude, you are sooooo 2002 <grin>.  WML has been all but dead for two
years.


Joe

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