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"Don Park" <donpark@d...> writes: > I would agree with you if it was just the parser and the application > with nothing in between. Unfortunately, most e-commerce systems is > based on N-tier designs with lots of middleware and mediums between > the data source and the application. You have to worry, not just > about the size of the your toilet hole, but all the pipes between > your home and the sewer plant. Sorry about my rather yucky > analogy. <g> Most e-commerce players are going to use XML only for interchange; despite the best efforts of self-proclaimed XML vendors, few real players would be foolish enough to redesign all of their internal around XML. That means that you're going to get XML => proprietary internal storage => XML, where the XML that comes out may or may not bear any resemblance to the XML that goes in -- elements, attributes, PIs, and even character data may come out completely transformed (or not at all), because equivalence will be defined by something other than the XML markup model. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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