On Tuesday 12 December 2006 23:49, Richard Hosking wrote: > Presumably each data item is wrapped in a set of xml tags - do they use > a common set or are the tags defined for each vendor? Presumably they > would be nested something like > <DB> > <table> > <element> > </element> > </table> > </DB>
I never understood the terrible bloat of XML - why, oh why, when equally powerful yet eminently more readable and vastly more efficient options are available - options that are even easier to parse than XML too. http://www.yaml.org http://www.json.org With the rapid spread of AJAX technology and AJAX really increasingly becoming AJAJ (using JSON for object serialization instead of XML), JSON looks like a safe bet. I think when "managers" dream up health messaging, they have to come with a convoluted ambiguous monstrosity like HL7 - and when they dream up a universal data exchange format, they come up with XML. Certainly not the doings of real life software engineers ... Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
