> Other limitations on using XML - it's a no-show for enterprise scale > databases > or information processing. All that wasted space starts to count when you > have > to buy two ?20,000 high availability RAID disk arrays instead of one....and > plus > the bandwidth wastage when there are millions of messages rather than just a > few. Yes, binary compression helps, but it just shifts disk and bandwidth > loss > to the CPU. There are many better ways to represent data for large-scale > deployments than XML (even the dADL syntax from ADL does 100% better in > space, > and represents all object-oriented constructs unambiguously). > You have got to be kidding me on this one.
Having done XML messaging in very large retail systems (major supermarket chains in the EU & US), mobile phone systems, home office/criminal justice system & now the CFH....you simply have got to be kidding. ummmmmm.......where to even start....oh yes how about... "XML is a very commonly used standard with thousands of tools in existence from routing engines, to processing engines to parsers to database layers ...." or maybe "XML is THE standard in enterprise level messaging systems with standards such as SOAP, EbXML, OAGI BODS etc.etc." or maybe : "XML integrates easily with existing web infrastructures by use of such mechanisms as AJAX, Rest JSON etc". Now wrt ADL..... Adam ********************************************************************** This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is used daily by over 100,000 staff in the NHS. Over a million messages are sent every day by the system. To find out why more and more NHS personnel are switching to this NHS Connecting for Health system please visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail **********************************************************************
