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Subject: RE: [ubl-dev] Comments on UBL
Quoting "David RR Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>: > David, Back in the early days of XML/edi - we showed how you can > minimize the on-the-wire information by using referential XML > fragments - so for example - why send your customer information - if > you have already sent that same information 1000 times already this > month? maybe it was too clever for middle management.. they were only interested in which white wine to drink with their lunch. > but again smarter > brains insisted that everything should have namespaces plastered all > over it - more bloat - and more self-defeating markup. Oh well - > back to the drawing board - again... ; -) Interestingly there has > been a revolt in FIXml circles - where they have gone back to highly > optimized small xml packets... but only after they bloodied their > noses on huge mega-transactions that upped their bandwidth needs by > 500%. DW I can understand that. I've always believed that there can be a happy medium between nice structured markup and efficient transmission speeds. <Opinion> Assigned_Value$=0.02 </Opinion>
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