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 Thanks Chris and Alaric, I am much clearer on this, and it is, thankfully (somewhat) what I thought was the scenario. My problem with <RecipeML> is, IMO, that it violates Model-View-Controller (MVC) programming in that it combines data description and data display in one document. I have no interest in the CSS or the display criteria of a recipeML recipe, I just want the data. I'm willing to acknowledge that there is a use for RecipeML, I just don't see it as apropos to a XML definition for recipes. Curious enough, I don't even know what a CSV file is, and Google didn't really help me to understand it. I develop in Java for JDBC compliant relational databases, (Frontbase) is my preferred one; using HTTP as the transport mechanism and HTML (w/CSS) as the display mechanism. > ...then you may find it easier to stick to better-established > standards for such things, like CSV files! On Nov 21, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Chris Wilper wrote: > Hi Baiss, > > Exporting to XML is a good step. But you can't > get interoperability unless you export to a > more specific, shared format. > > To have interoperability, the programs have to > be able to import XML, too. If there is a widely > used recipe XML language (which google tells me > is the case: http://www.formatdata.com/recipeml/), > then it would be a good idea to have your program > allow export to (and import from) that format. > > If another program can read RecipeML, then you're > all set. If not, but you want to interoperate, > you could write a XSL stylesheet (or program) to > transform RecipeML to their format... or you could > just try to convince them to directly allow imports > of RecipeML. > > I'm not sure if Quicken imports any form of XML; > it would be nice, wouldn't it? But just dumping > any old XML out to a file isn't going to get you > interoperating with Quicken. If it does support > any kind of XML import, you have to find out the > specific form it has to take, and create that as > output somewhere along the line. > > - Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Baiss Magnusson [mailto:cascades@e...] > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 2:41 PM > To: XML-DEV > Subject: Relating to XML > > > I have a direct to java client web application which parses a XML file, > I designed the XML syntax, of recipes into Enterprise Objects (EO's). > > My question is: How does one go about creating interoperability with > other applications? > For instance, there is another cookbook application around which has an > export function and produces an XML type file of similar, but slightly > different tag syntax than my cookbook program. I would like to import > it's recipes. > > Is there something about XML services that I am missing? > > I had the same kind of problem with my application > <www.track-your-finances.com>, where I dumped the transactions into an > XML file, but then I found no use for those transactions as there was > no application around which could use the file. I had thought that > something like Quicken would be able to import the file, but that > didn't appear to be the case. > ---- Baiss Eric Magnusson <http://www.Track-Your-Finances.com> <http://www.CascadeWebDesign.com> 
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