Sorry to be so ignorant,

but is xml then just some form of client-side asp/php?

I don't get it why you have the extra xml step in this story.  I just write
some app in asp/access, do a GUI for it in asp and display the data through
asp.  Not one browser has problems with that, you have full control over
anything and you can use regular html.

Can't see any advantage with XML.  But as said, maybe I just don't see the
benefit of it all.


- Kayjey -


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Onderwerp: Why XML?


On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:42:29 -0400 (EDT), Mike Taylor <lonewolf(at)one.net>
asked:
>Since 1998, I've read countless articles explaining what XML is and
>I've seen a lot of snippets of custom-tagged code showing what it looks
>like, but because my job has never required it, I've never fully
>understood what exactly XML *does* for a company, especially in B2B
>applications. I've never seen any real-world examples that show how using
>it vs. something else vastly improves workflow. 
>
>To those of you using XML extensively in this context, can you share with
>us what you had been doing before and how/why moving to XML has radically
>changed things? 

Mostly, I don't do B2B.  However, I work with quite a few products that use
XML, have been since, like 1998.  Usually, XML is used when data of
indeterminate format is stored somewhere and needs to be displayed or used
somewhere else.  Like, for example, the data is stored in some weirdo
database and needs to be displayed on a browser page and then modified by
the user and the modified data stored back.  Obviously, that kind of
paradigm would work B2B or not.

I can't show you any of my clients' products, but I use XML to update the
following page every month:
http://www.armadillosoft.com/cmc/readevents.php3

Before I implemented this in XML, every month I'd have to enter the data,
which I got as ASCII, and format it onto an HTML page.  I'm actually a fast 
typist and very swift at HTML, but it was not an intellectually stimulating
task.  

So, now, I enter the event information into a form, store it in a database,
publish it as XML and use a php program I've written to format the event
information and display this page.  

Why don't I just let the browser display the XML for me?  Well, I'd love to,
but most browsers don't do XML and I didn't want to keep hand-entering the
data until most of my users' browsers caught up.

For a little more information about how I implemented the XML, see:
http://armadillosoft.com/aboutTop.htm#xml

My plan, when my ship comes in, or, if someone comes forward to fund me, is
to write a really good user-friendly XML pre-processing suite in C++.  Know
anyone with $?  

--Emily

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