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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:16:17 -0500
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Subject: Re: Data table text I/O package?
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:24:30 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
>>Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>
>>>But for data exchange there are better techniques than XML.
>>
>>Such as ...?
> 
> Take any middleware available.

This exchange seems analagous to:

"For information exchange there are better techniques than conversing in 
English."

"Such as ...?"

"A Telephone."

:-)

At some point, somewhere, the data has to be put on the wire using some 
defined format--XML, application specific raw binary, eXternal Data 
Representation (XDR), etc.  Don't conflate the mechanism of data 
transfer, be it CORBA, RPC, Ada Streams, whatever, with the 
representation of the data.

Marc A. Criley
www.mckae.com