Quote:
Originally posted by NineNine
Why in the fuck would I send data from one app to another as:
<XML>
<thisisdata>
<TimesIFuckedYourMother Time=today>
<5>
</TimesIFuckedYourMother>
</thisisdata>
</xml>
When I could just send it as:
5
That makes no sense. I know what I'm sending, and I know what I'm receiving. Hell, even if you have the nice little descriptors in XML, you still have to send/receive in some kind of agreed upon format.
If someone was expecting to receive:
<XML>
<thisisdata>
<TimesIFuckedYourMother>
<Daily>
<5>
</Daily>
</TimesIFuckedYourMother>
</thisisdata>
</xml>
It wouldn't work.
On top of that, you have a massive amount of descriptive data that you have to send (waste), and you also have the massive overhead of parsers. XML is, by and large, pretty fucking lame. Hell, I use W2K, but I'm not that much of a fucking sucker to believe every goddamned MS whitepaper that I read.
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Have you done any research on XML Web Services?
This might be a good place to start.
http://www.webservices.org/