Re: So let me get this straight.... (XML in RPG)

[Terrence Enger <tenger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 17:23 -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> Terrence Enger wrote:
> > Tee hee.  A tale of failed communication in
> > XML: ï<http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Special-Delivery.aspx>. It could
> > be sad, but we worker bees can't help smiling.
> >
> > I suppose the trade confirmation was in a literal sense "narrow".
>
> And would you care to explain how having a fully-functional XML parser 
> reading back the response from the web service would have been any 
> better than a specialized parser that was smart enough to recognize that 
> it had an unexpected response, and forward that unexpected response to a 
> real person?

It would not be "better than", but it could well be a robust "part of".

My "tee hee" was a hint not to take this too seriously.  Maybe I should
have put "[whimsy]" in the subject.  Then again ...

> Besides, it was a case of a malformed outbound data stream.

Which was the seller's malformed (but accepted) inbound data stream.

Cheers,
Terry.

> --
> JHHL