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It is an interesting read, but it seems that adding "middle men" back into transactions has a way of defeating the thrusts of simplification and taking out cost. It is amazing how we keep replicating the complexity and costs of human communication using negotiating agents. Barrett: "Right. All you have to do is write up an XSL style sheet, install it, and then set the configuration for when it should be used. Or you can alter somebody else's style sheet practically knowing nothing, although it is a fairly complex language. It's not for the faint of heart. I'd rather program Java any day." "Simple" is a familiarity index. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Zier [mailto:Stefan.Zier@s...] http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/features/feat-transcoding.html They basically have a piece of software called "IBM WebSphere Transcoding Publisher" which - amongst other things - has the capability of compressing XML for certain communication paths. I think this is geared towards the app server and mobile markets, but has some advantages, one important one being that on both endpoints of communication data is still good old human-readable XML. One cool thing about it is that it can also do lossy compression (if you will) - it reduces a document to some subset that can be understood by the recipient device (e.g. it might strip some images or tags not known by mobile devices).
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