Re: [WEB400] RE: XML vs. Name Value pair

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:45:10 -0600
 "Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What happens if the request contains multiple orders?
>  How do you say that
> > LineItem1 belongs to the first or second order?  Now
> you are going to have
> > to write some nifty parsing routines because parentage
> is going to be a
> pain
> > in the butt.  You will most likely have to build in a
> multiple nested
> array
> > structure within your name value pair names or qualify
> the heck out of
> your
> > names (&Order1_Item1=1234).

No, you only get information on order at a time.  Why try
to drink from a firehose?  

What if you had 100000 orders.  Are you going to spend 45
minutes building a 50meg XML file and send that across?
 No.  

Again, breaking it up logically makes sense here.