Re: Why use PHP? What are the disadvantages?

[hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Thorbjørn,

I have been around data exchange in 25+ years, from EDIfact to XML
and there is a lot of technology stuff that overcomplicate things -
try to sit in an European standardization process - whatever you make
always ends up in some sort of bilateral agreement between customers.

If anybody think that you just can code a EDIfact 96A based Invoice 
based on the UN standards and shoot it into a SAP installation and 
it will understand it - they have to think again.

The same goes for webservices - it looks like the promised land just
to run it up against a WSDL - in fact it is completly unnessacary.

When you recieve a XML message, who cares if this message also contains
a greeting to the senders grandmother in a version 5.1 - as long as it
holds it syntax and as long you can retrieve the data you need.

I do RAWREADING - that is to read the XML-tree raw and search what you
are looking for, you may include any <laurelAndHardy> or <donaldDuck>
segments wherever you please, who cares as long as you send the vital
data in segments that is understandable in the hirachical file structure 

Henrik 




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Den 21/04/10 22.17, hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx skrev:
> Nope, that is Scott's ballgame - but powerEXT Core does write and reads
> XML in very few
> statements across HTTPAPI (client services) and CGIDEV2 (server 
services)
> (as well as
> JSON etc.)
Ok, but I am pretty certain I will need SOAP :(

If not, I'll have a closer look.