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Re: XML, routing

• To: "W. E. Perry" <wperry@f...>
• Subject: Re: XML, routing
• From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:01:32 +0200
• Cc: XML DEV <xml-dev@l...>
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W. E. Perry wrote:
> So, yes, there can be value for routing in using the contents of messages to
> determine simply the network addresses to which they should be sent. Yet if
> you are doing that you are effectively only re-inventing simple network
> addressing inside the much higher (and capable of much more complex
> semantics) level of the XML document.

You wouldn't belive what set of weird requirements you
can get in the context of EDI. What about a proxy on
a firewall machine, routing XML based EDI messages to
various different machines in a network with private
IP adresses based on the messages' content?

J.Pietschmann

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