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On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 19:02, Ronald Bourret wrote: > Of course not, but lots of people are using it, and that makes it a > worthwhile choice. The point is not to choose the best way to exchange > information portably, but to choose a good enough way that is used > widely enough that information can actually be exchanged. That's reasonable, though I've spent a fair amount of time arguing that XML isn't actually "a good enough way" to carry the particular kinds of information that people want to exchange. It may work for a while, but I'm not sure whether XML's carrying capacity is up to that load. It may be time to flag the bridge or put a weight limit on it. The PSVI seems (to me) to be practically begging for a more appropriate transmission format than XML. Dunno. I'm working on some projects to get information out of binary formats and into XML, so maybe I'll take what I learn to go the other direction and see how it goes. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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