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On 2005-06-01 15:21:36 -0400 "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...> wrote: >> There are better tools for handling XML, both at API level and >> at user/data level? > > No. There are better syntaxes than XML for messaging. Are there? What are they? For particular messaging infrastructures, particular, often proprietary or opaque data models have useful characteristics (compactness, domain-specific expressivity, compatibility with processing models). Unfortunately, these data models often cannot be shared, for one reason or another (proprietary, tied to an architecture, or simply fragile). [Some] messaging solution producers have been searching for a format that will satisfy customers' desire to ME DO! without giving the competition an edge, and without losing too much of the expressivity found in their jealously-guarded proprietary models. XML fits the bill, in part because it *is* lower-performance. "Well, we can provide this transparent, standards-based format, but you'll take a bit of a hit on it. If you just drink the nice koolaid, we can increase your throughput by [impressive number]!" Customers, on the other hand, sometimes nod solemnly, promise to think about it, then look for a third-party that can provide performance enhancements over the [transparent] XML message formats. *shrug* In this particular space, it appears that the customers are driving toward XML, or at least toward some structured, expressive message data format with high transparency and public guardianship. Perhaps they're overestimating the utility of XML, or underestimating its cost, but it does appear to be a customer-driven push, not trade-secret vendor koolaid with miraculous healing powers. Amy! (carefully not speaking for any employer, past or present, but citing nebulous "experience" nevertheless) -- Amelia A. Lewis amyzing {at} talsever.com And now someone's on the telephone, desperate in his pain; someone's on the bathroom floor, doing her cocaine; someone's got his finger on the button in some room-- no one can convince me we aren't gluttons for our doom. -- Indigo Girls
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