Tim Cronin wrote:
> Web hosted applications seem particularly fond of XML. It is a structured
> format that can be processed, and is easy to exchange using http post and
> get so Internet developers take to it more readily than EDI. Http protocols
> are firewall friendly, so are a path of least resistance as well.
Some discussion points here.
1. Web hosted applications are C2B. EDI is B2B. So the two are used for
totally different and quite complementary applications.
2. Why are data organised in XML syntax any more a "structured format"
than data organised in a trad-edi format?
3. Why are all of the claims you make for data transported in XML syntax
(via http) not equally true for data transported in an EDI syntax?
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Ken Steel ICARIS Services
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