RE: [WEB400] XML/XSL

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

>Isn't the final output HTML?  Isn't the receiver a browser?

By using XML I don't care what the recipient is (as long as the recipient
has jumped on the XML bandwagon:-).  In my corporation we have web services
that output XML.  Potentially the recipient could be a .NET program, PDA,
HTML form, another RPG program, etc.

>Brad Stone likes to point out that technology is often used for the sake of
promoting technology rather than solving problems.
...
>Is such the case when HTML is generated from XML?

Brad schmad.  What does he know?  Just kidding:-)  Sorry Brad, you can take
out with your Z400;-)  

XML is great because it solves the problem of getting anything to
communicate with anything in one standard format.  The big problem with XML
is that the tools suck.  Yeah there is a lot of them, but who has the time
to learn them all?  In the future you won't know you are using XML because
it will be behind the scenes and built for you.  Java and .NET are already
make strides toward that, but it is still in it's infancy.  

Right now our need to communicate between companies (external and internal)
is driving the use of XML where I work.  We could write processes to
communicate with each platform/language the way it likes it best, but why
not just use XML and be done with it:-)

Aaron



-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 1:02 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] XML/XSL


> From: "Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Addressing your other concerns over the amount of XML
> steps.  I think this is becoming par for the course when you
> need to communicate a bunch of different ways and you don't
> always know what is going to be on the receiving end of your
> program.

Isn't the final output HTML?  Isn't the receiver a browser?

> And if that is the case, what else are you
> going to use, comma separated values?

I agree that XML offers advantages over comma separated values, but what
does that have to do with it?  XML may be good for program to program
communication, but is it good for HTML generation?

Brad Stone likes to point out that technology is often used for the sake of
promoting technology rather than solving problems.  When used in that
manner, the problems only get bigger.  Is such the case when HTML is
generated from XML?

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com



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