Re: [Tutor] XML: Expletive Deleted (OT)

2006-06-16 Thread Alan Gauld
> [ The only SOA/XML book that addresses this side of XML usage > is the excellent "SOA - A Field Guide" by Peter Erls. Erls also > suggests some mitigating strategies to get round it.] Oops, don't rely on memory... That is Thomas Erl not Peter Erls. And of course there may be other SOAP/XML boo

Re: [Tutor] XML: Expletive Deleted (OT)

2006-06-15 Thread Alan Gauld
Just picked this up after being out for most of the week... "Carroll, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > One reason to for choosing a human-readable format is the desire to > visually confirm the correctness of the stored data and format. Thats a very dangerous asumption, how do you d

Re: [Tutor] XML: Expletive Deleted (OT)

2006-06-12 Thread Kent Johnson
Carroll, Barry wrote: > So here's my off-topic question: Ajax is being touted as the 'best-known > method' (BKM) for making dynamic browser-based applications, and XML is > the BKM for transferring data in Ajax land. If XML is a bad idea for > network data-transfer, what medium should be used inst

Re: [Tutor] XML: Expletive Deleted (OT)

2006-06-12 Thread Carroll, Barry
Alan, Ralph, et al: This is a little off-topic, I guess, being not directly related to Python. Oh, well. Here are a couple of personal opinions and a question about XML. > -Original Message- > Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:55:17 +0100 > From: "Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: