Earl, don't look to the 800-lb. gorillas to initiate revolutions. It's unlikely a gorilla would exclusively mandate a gussied-up UML-modeled core-componentized ISO 11179 compliant XML based e-business standard. Medicare is another case in point. That's why HIPAA's TCS Rule strictly mandates - for the most part - crusty, old X12 EDI for claims, payments and whatnot. Is that why Martin Morrison is stuck with abominations like 300 megabyte 837 Healthcare Claim transactions? And to this day, 9 years after HIPAA was promulgated, Medicare itself still can't conform completely to the "standard" HIPAA EDI guidelines.
William J. Kammerer Novannet Columbus, OH 43221-3859 . USA +1 (614) 487-0320 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Earl Wertheimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hurd, Richard [SLCUS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "EDI-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 04 February, 2005 01:05 PM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] <ADVOCACY> Why I Don't Like XML Richard > Now maybe it's the puritanical spirit in me, but geez, if I'm spending > damn near > twice as much time, data storage and bandwidth shipping my delimiters > as I am to > ship my data (44 bytes versus 125 bytes), well that to me is just > plain dumb. I > don't care how cheap it is, I don't care how fast your data link is -- > if you > spent twice as much time shipping data than overhead, your throughput > would > double. Wouldn't it? Except that the 7x increase in size (125 / 17) is offset by the huge increase in connection speeds. Something like 47Kb to 10Mb ?? "The data transmitted expands to the available bandwidth" When WalMart sends POs in XML, we'll be ready. Until then, fagetaboudit.. Earl Wertheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spe-edi.com . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
