Earl, to your statement "When Wal-Mart sends POs in XML, we'll be ready. Until then, fagetaboudit.." You may want to go to Google and do a search on "Wal-Mart xml" and "Wal-Mart EAN.UCC". While they may not be sending PO's to your customers, they are and have been active participants providing leadership in several EAN.UCC (now GS1) XML initiatives. Statements that they do not see the benefits in XML are inaccurate.
Sylvia Webb ________________________________ From: Earl Wertheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 10:05 AM To: Hurd, Richard [SLCUS]; EDI-L Mailing List 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] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> . . 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/
