RE: XML vs. Name Value pair was ->RE: [WEB400]

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

<Brad>
You're breaking it down to a point that is silly, Aaron.
 If you look at any XML document you can see it normally
has a hierarchical structure that you can pull out into
 relational segments.  
</Brad>

So now that you have said that I still want to know how you are going to
intuitively make it work with name value pairs.  And once you reach the end
take a look at XML.  XML all the sudden doesn't look so bad besides the
somewhat verbose-ness of it.

<Brad>
Hierarchical data is so 1980s.  But I guess everything
comes back into style.  <snicker>
</Brad>

Everything good came from the 80's.  Scooby Doo, Petra, cheesy rap;-)

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:14 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: XML vs. Name Value pair was ->RE: [WEB400] 


On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:17:24 -0500 
 "Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think that would be worse than using XML, but that is
> just my opinion.
> Besides XML has so much more built into it like Schemas
> and XSL (XSL used
> for XML translations in this example).

So much technology and work to do something that at one
time was so simple.  :)

> 
> Are you going to tell your customer "Ok, first your going
> to send me
> Order=123, and when I respond with resp=success then you
> send me item=11111,
> and when I respond with resp=success you send me
> item=2222, etc. . ."?  XML
> is so much more than just a buzzword and bulky.  

You're breaking it down to a point that is silly, Aaron.
 If you look at any XML document you can see it normally
has a hierarchical structure that you can pull out into
 relational segments.  

Why?  Because the data normally comes from a relational
database to begin with.  Order Header, Order Detail,
Shipping Master, Shipping Detail, etc.. etc..

Hierarchical data is so 1980s.  But I guess everything
comes back into style.  <snicker>

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