At 10:14 AM -0500 5/2/05, Marty Schrader wrote:
>Scott Brown said:
>> The IT industry took a hard look at XML years ago, asked the hard
>> questions, addressed the inherent problems that come with any
>> emerging technology and moved forward with it. We should benefit
>> from that effort.
>
>
>I'd like to add that we are missing the boat completely by arguing about XML
>"security." XML is not about databases, security, or applications. XML is a
>*transport* mechanism for data; it is about getting data from one place to
>another with little risk that the data is corrupted by the transport process
>itself. Network security, data representation, application handshaking, and
>everything else is *not* relative to the issue of XML as a data
>transport. Let's
>try to keep focused on what we're doing here, folks.
Actually, we're using XML as a data encoding language, not as a
transport mechanism.
Best regards,
Arthur
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