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

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

>I looked at it.  Why do we have to try to cram every piece
>of data into one transmission?  Why not multiple calls? 

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).

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.  Does XML provide
functionality that already exists, yes.  But that functionality is
incredibly enhanced over sending fixed length text files or name value
pairs.

I think that XML is overkill for really simple apps that could receive in a
couple of form variables that aren't repeating and don't have to show
parentage, but then you have to weigh if you want to deal with multiple
methods of writing programs or just stick with one or the other.

Aaron Bartell


-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 5:16 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: XML vs. Name Value pair was ->RE: [WEB400] 


> I should have wrote the sentence as "...but to make my
> point more valid let
> me give you an example where I thought XML via POST would
> be better than a
> name value pairs via POST."

I looked at it.  Why do we have to try to cram every piece
of data into one transmission?  Why not multiple calls?  

That could be easily done with named pairs.

Brad
www.bvstools.com
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