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

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:22:52 -0500 
 "Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Multiple orders was just an example of having one
> repeating structure within
> another.  For instance within our corporation we can have
> passed multiple
> prices and item numbers because we store it at the
> customer level, point
> company level, and prod company level.  And being a
> printing company we also
> have a lot of text within each item telling us what to
> print on the product.

Oh I know what you're talking about.  :)  But you don't
pass all of that data at once.  You pass the appropriate
price for the prod and point company that are working
together.  

If you're trying to implement a pricing scheme into XML,
IMHO that's bass ackwards.  Business logic has no place in
XML, or any data transfers.

> It gets
> to a point where
> you say, "Do I want to use a widely accepted industry
> standard like XML or
> do I want to recreate this process for each method I
> receive orders?"

Who says XML is widley accepted?  I would say more don't
use it than do.  And as you know with each trading partner
you DO have to recreate the process.  

We even experienced that trading with the same company
while I was working there!  

XML isn't magic.  It has it's place... but there is no
magic.

> <Brad>
> Who wants to put forth the effort, make source available
> only to have it criticized because:
> 
> "Its only RPG" or
> "You whould use DOW instead of DOU" or...
> </Brad>
> 
> I wish I had that problem.  I can't even get anybody to
> help with the code
> outside of my corporation.  

Exactly my point.  :)  But, if Leo Laportte and Patrick
Norton talk about those languages, they must be cool and
worth talking about in an AS/400 forum, right?