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> From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...] > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 12:38 AM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: XML in .NET - more than just SOAP? > > > Yeah, practically everything uses XML in one way or > another now; probably to a much greater degree than > the average person would feel is reasonable. That > has been the strategic direction of Microsoft for a > very long time. The first mention I remember where > this strategic direction got "leaked" to the public was > in fall of 97, reported here: > http://www.feedmag.com/html/feedline/98.03pesce/98.03pesce_master.html. > > > interoperating with .NET services by exchanging XML > > "document" data rather > > than RPC calls with representations of proprietary objects > > encoded in SOAP, > > That is what biztalk does. The messages coming in from > other systems can be synchronous or asynchronous, and > can use practically any transport you like (MQ-Series, > whatever). Also they do not necessarily have to be SOAP, > since the mapper allows transforms. > > > actual content of Office documents (including spreadsheets, > > Not certain. Office 2000 generates alot of storage > for web-based stuff as XML. I've done alot just > looking at the XML it creates and playing with it. Since when is Office 2000 creating XML??? Last time I checked MS Word only created HTML with some XML island embedded into comments (!!!).
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