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Re: Fw: PLEASE 'splain a DTD's purpose
" Nobody listened, because the standards and the interchanges we used
weren't
HTML, and weren't on the Web. Everything today has to be done on the web,
which is why people are today throwing out perfectly good EDI interfaces in
favor of what I like to call "electronic rip 'n read," or browsing a
customer
web site and keypunching the data. Where is the progress in that?"
AMEN, Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "rich hurd" <
To: "EDI-L Yahoogroups" <
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Fw: PLEASE 'splain a DTD's purpose
> At 02:52 PM 11/1/2002 -0600, Michael Mattias wrote:
> >Out of the mouths of babes....
>
> the rest of the story.
>
> Michael congratulated xmEllen for getting the point, to which she replied
> (I thought incredulously,) "Are you serious?"
>
> Here's my reply to her. This is gonna be fun tonight. What else have I
> to do? At least I don't have to work, neener neener.
>
> >Are you serious?
>
> Yes, he is. XML is far from the Silver Bullet (tm) that we all thought
would
> save us from the inadequacies of other forms of electronic data
interchange.
>
> There are those of us who have been saying for years "XML is interesting,
but
> it isn't a panacea and all it does is replace one set of standards with NO
> standards and push them from a directorate back down to the trading
partner."
>
> Nobody listened, because the standards and the interchanges we used
weren't
> HTML, and weren't on the Web. Everything today has to be done on the
web,
> which is why people are today throwing out perfectly good EDI interfaces
in
> favor of what I like to call "electronic rip 'n read," or browsing a
customer
> web site and keypunching the data. Where is the progress in that?
>
> The fact of the matter is that there is a *great* potential for confusion
and,
> dare I say, near-anarchy before some standards organization comes along
and
> mandates an XML standard. And there are several atoms of this already,
like
> RosettaNet. This is truly replacing one set of standards with another,
and
> the only difference is that the XML standards are bulkier and harder to
read
> in a raw format -- and if you don't have a DTD, that's all you can do.
> At least I can pull up an X12 document in 'vi' or Notepad and figure out
> pretty much what the hell the sender was trying to send. With XML, it's
> all so much alphabet soup.
>
>
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