[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: version numbers and infosets

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: version numbers and infosets
• From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:02:28 +0200
• Cc: michael.h.kay@n..., 'Elliotte Rusty Harold'<elharo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• References: <200207241202.IAA28232@m...>
• User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523

John Cowan wrote:
 >>> That means that on mainframe platforms, XML files are not plaintext files
 >>> and vice versa.  As a matter of justice, this is intolerable.
> Mainframes are far from obsolete: nothing can match them for speed of
> access to main memory, they contain much of the financial and accounting
> data our species maintains, and they are continuing to make money
> (since you bring that up) for the vendors who sell them.

I'm not sure what you are complaining about? We (a large
swiss bank) *do* routinely exchange XML between a mainframe
and machines running various other systems, including AIX,
WinNT and Solaris, with mainframe software both producing and
consuming XML, and we do so with XML 1.0. I can't see any
advantage in using XML 1.1 for this purpose.

J.Pietschmann

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: version numbers and infosets
    • From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>

• References:
  • Re: version numbers and infosets
    • From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>

• Prev by Date: Re: URIs harmful
• Next by Date: Re: version numbers and infosets
• Previous by thread: Re: version numbers and infosets
• Next by thread: Re: version numbers and infosets
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread