========================================================= ----- PETER COFFEE'S ENTERPRISE IT ADVANTAGE ----- ========================================================= A weekly newsletter from eWEEK Technology Editor Peter Coffee focused on application development and technologies at the cutting edge of enterprise-class computing.
========================================================= Sponsored by Mercury In business, there are two kinds of change. Change that happens to you, and change that you drive. Mercury's Business Technology Optimization (BTO) offerings can help you take charge of change to drive business gain. Learn more at: http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1398-6-7-214274-153840-1 ========================================================= November 16, 2004 ========================================================= In This Edition ========================================================= PETER COFFEE: Cutting and Sewing with XML ========================================================= PETER COFFEE ========================================================= Cutting and Sewing with XML Multi-source transformation and integration is a pathway to valuable applications. by Peter Coffee It's rarely a term of praise to compare an IT system to a quilt. In an IT context, I usually see the "q" word with a prefix like "patchwork" or even "crazy"--labeling a system as combining all sorts of independently developed elements with no coherent overall design. With several quilters in my family, though, I think of their craft as creating a new and unique higher-level pattern by combining pre-existing component patterns in a way that embodies some original theme. That image came to my mind the other day when I was thinking of the opportunity to extract and recombine XML data, from many sources, into a new and added-value combination in the same way that a quilter works with fabrics. A quilting metaphor illuminates the developer opportunity that XML provides. It's hard to imagine combining pieces of metal and plastic, or leather and glass, in the way that a quilter joins pieces of fabric. Heterogeneous combinations like the ones I've just mentioned are like combinations of arbitrary binary data structures: They require tricky integration techniques and produce awkward products that can't be handled correctly without detailed knowledge of exactly how they were put together and from what. Read the rest of Peter's column here. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1398-6-7-214274-153414-1 ========================================================= Tech Jobs http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1398-6-7-214274-153417-1 ========================================================= Ziff Davis Channel Zone http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1398-6-7-214274-153420-1 ========================================================= DevSource http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1398-6-7-214274-153423-1 ========================================================= eNewsletter Information ========================================================= You are subscribed to this newsletter with the e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.eweek.com/unsubscribe_newsletter/0,4223,,00.asp?n=08&type=u&[EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your HTML/text preferences, change your e-mail address or subscribe to other eNewsletters from Ziff Davis Media, click here: http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1398-6-7-214274-153426-1 Questions about your newsletter subscriptions? To read our FAQ, click here: http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1398-6-7-214274-153429-1 ========================================================= eWEEK Magazine Information ========================================================= To apply for a free subscription to eWEEK, please go to http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1398-6-7-214274-153432-1 For help with your print subscription to eWEEK, click here: http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1398-6-7-214274-153435-1 Copyright (c) 2004 Ziff Davis Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Media Inc., 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016
