On 4/18/01 9:00 AM, andu wrote:
> I looked at info on different messaging software the other day and came
> across "Jobber" which is "open source".
> What distinguishes it doesn't seem to be a new technology or philosophy
> but the fact that it's all XML: header information, the message itself
> and client-server control data.
> XML has great advantages at operating with data which is displayed but I
> never understood the usefulness of it when it comes to managing data
> "behind the scene".
In many cases, storing data in XML has advantage of proceeding it with many
other tools - even a word processor. However, we parse XML into array for
processing most of the time. And only store non-critical (small size, no
speed concern) data in XML.
There are no speed advantage of dealing with XML on "behind the scene"
situation, but we realised that user tent to get more complicated nowadays
and would want to deal with data directly.
Don't forget PostScript is far more efficient then HTML on page layout, but
how many person do you know write PostScript file with word processor?
I don't mind to make full use of XML, provided a very efficient XML library
is given (definitely not written by myself ;-). However when come to data
processing, use whatever is native on your system - in our case, the array
in MetaCard.
Regards,
LiangTyan Fui
> Why would one use "<username>andu</username>" instead of "username:
> andu" and stuff like that in a header? Same goes for webDav. The
> overhead of parsing and transmitting at least twice the length of data
> seems unacceptable to me.
> I'd like to hear what other people think on this subject.
>
> Andu
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