Mike,
I mentioned WDDX. Cold Fusion easily integrates with it and there is a
COM object that ASP can use very easily. It parses record set easily and
serializes deserializes in no time. It would have made our whole life
easier!
Check out my next post I went over the beta CPS and found a few XML bugs.
This all could have been avoided with WDDX :)
Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Glover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 6:50 PM
Subject: Why not WDDX?
> I beleive someone else asked this question a few weeks ago, but I
> never saw it answered. Why isn't OpenSRS using the WDDX DTD instead of
> rolling its own? It uses XML, it's *designed* for for moving data objects
> over the internet between possibly different languages, and there are
> parsers for it for a number of different languages already (Perl and Java
> I beleive are officially supported, PHP unofficially).
>
> By using a custom DTD, you do get more control of what data you're
> passing around. But you're also doubling up the work that's already
> been done by another, larger group of people. In a year, there will be
> fewer bugs in the WDDX spec and implementation than in OpenSRS. Instead
> of having developers spending time singlehandedly implementing and
> maintaining all of this custom code, they could be developing higher
> level (read: more profitable) bits of infrastructure.
>
> I understand that OpenSRS has a lot of time and money invested in
> it's custom DTD, but keeping a proprietary format is only going to keep
> costing more money and more time in the future as you continue to
> maintain the DTD and associated code. In addition, people like me who
> absolutely *require* their client to be in a language other than perl, and
> are limping along unable to fully integrate OpenSRS into their businesses,
> will be much happier customers.
>
> Just my two shiny pebbles and a feather.
>
> -mike
>
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>
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> Tain't nobody's bizness if I do"
> -- Billie Holiday
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