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Re: XML for Video, Pizza Shops & TakeOut

• From: Francis Norton <francis@r...>
• To: Marcus Carr <mrc@a...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:29:13 +0100

Marcus Carr wrote:
> 
> 
> What would you have it do in those places? If you can identify an economically
> viable requirement for those markets, you might be on to something. The video
> store itself probably won't even see out the decade, so I doubt if anyone's going
> to put much effort into ramping up that model. For the other two, the phone is
> probably more efficient overall for taking orders and they might use a database
> for reordering if they belong to a chain. Beyond that, you'd be looking to do
> something pretty specialised. Where's the dough in a pizza shop?
> 
How about a really simple XML web service to query where a chain's
nearest branch is? (+ phone, fax, URL and opening hours) - I can't think
of any retail chain that *wouldn't* want to support this query...

Francis.

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