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Re: Microsoft FUD on binary XML...

• Subject: Re: Microsoft FUD on binary XML...
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:58:54 +0000
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> That's the crux of this thread. Is the message that is transmitted *what 
> is transmitted* or rather *something else* that is encoded in the 
> message. If you are primarily looking from the vantage point of an 
> application which communicates with another application *as if via RPC*, 
> then the interface is primary and the bits on the wire are secondary. On 
> the other hand if you are sending a document from one place to the 
> other, then the document is primary. XML was not designed to be the 
> "perfect" RPC protocol. XML remains a great way to "encode" documents -- 
> saying this seems like a tautology -- because to a large extent the XML 
> *is* the document.

Fwiw, I think Jonathan is making an important point. It might help 
to draw an analogy between XML document transfer and the data: URI 
scheme.

Bill de hÓra

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Technical Architect
Propylon
http://www.propylon.com

• References:
  • RE: Microsoft FUD on binary XML...
    • From: "Bob Wyman" <bob@w...>
  • Re: Microsoft FUD on binary XML...
    • From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@o...>
  • Re: Microsoft FUD on binary XML...
    • From: Alaric B Snell <alaric@a...>
  • Re: Microsoft FUD on binary XML...
    • From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@o...>

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