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RE: Transmitting XML between different applications

• To: "'Mukul Gandhi'" <mukul_gandhi@y...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Transmitting XML between different applications
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 09:49:52 -0000
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> Hello Mr. Kay,
>   When you say, "probably not to encode it at all,
> i.e. send the XML document as is", do you mean send
> the XML document as a string?

Yes. An XML document is a string.
> 
> My sending application will create XML (for e.g. from
> browser input). I think best way to create a XML
> structure from discreet input values, would to use a
> DOM parser, and then serializing the DOM object into
> string? Is this the best way to create XML string at
> source application!

That's one way. Alternatives to DOM, within the same architectural approach,
include JDOM and XOM - both are much easier to use. Other possibilities
include writing out SAX events to a SAX serializer, or writing angle-bracket
syntax directly. Which is easiest depends on your application.
> 
> I recently came to know about 2 applications
> exchanging XML via email as transport. The sending
> application sends "XML file" attachments to a specific
> email address. The receiving application extracts the
> XML attachments from email. Is this a practical
> approach?

It seems a bit kludgey to me, but as a cheap and cheerful way of achieving
asynchronous communication with minimal configuration overhead, it's
certainly viable.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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