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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, John York writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Compared to .PL and .CGI? It's MS proprietary. Other than that it's fine.
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> > ++Lar
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> Besides, who wants to support Microsoft if they don't have to! I just finished
> creating a new architecture for my companies website using Java Servlets, XML
> and XSLT. The nice thing about XML and XSLT is that they are both • standardized,
> so you shouldn't have to worry about portability!
Well, yes and no. This is a big topic, FUT to off-topic.geek.
A few random points (spoken as a big XML fan who nevertheless has some reality
awareness)
XML itself is a standard, true, but most implementations that use it set up
their own standards! In the B2B world there are lots of competing standards
for talking about the same things (purchase orders, shipping confirmations,
etc)... cXML from Ariba (well, from their captive standards org cXML.org),
xCBL from Commerce One, OAG from Oracle, and others. In order to interoperate
you need to support all of these and then some.
Having said that, XML IS the way to go. Despite the complexity of some
grammars it is still easier to parse than EDI and moves across the public
network more easily, avoiding the cost of proprietary VANs.
But, while it's ideal for companies, large and smallish, it's not yet ready
for hobbyist use, as I said before. Not sure what is, if you want to avoid
vendor lock... .asp works fine but it locks you in to MS, I feel.
So I agree with you while at the same time caution against use of XML by the
casual web site builder.
A bit of a ramble, yes, but this is where me and my company make our money,
architecture and integration and interoperability and transformation. We just
announced an alliance with TIBCO which strengthens our play in messaging and
transactions.
FUT off-topic.geek
Larry Pieniazek
Mercator - the e-business transformation company - www.mercator.com
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