I´ve looked into some Oasis-specs (UBL) a while ago, and while i can see some sense in applying detailed standards in specific B2B-procurement areas, I´m more skeptical, whether these complex approaches will really scale beyond those markets.
Adam Bosworth, VP, Engineering at Google stated in his keynote at the MySQL Users Conference 2005 the lesson of the web: "True power comes from decentralization and standards that are open, easy to understand and easy to implement" I would highly encourage you to listen to his presentation and have a look at his slides: http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail571.html http://www.sdforum.org/images/events/presentations/Google_AdamBosworth.ppt In this talk he elaborates on his initial vision to achieve a Web of Data through XML, explains why it didn´t happen in the first place and proposes how it could still happen: with simple sloppy highly scalable protocols that share single common formats. That presentation had been given more than a year ago and since then Google had been hard at work to publish actual working code that is based on Bosworth´s vision. http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/ http://code.google.com/apis/base/ And suddenly it makes a lot of sense, why Google is putting all these efforts into their api architecture: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/07/a_week_in_the_valley_gdata.html So in the end the flavor of XML you will tend to choose probably will relate to the specific context, the needs of involved parties and the requirements for scalability. But I wouldn´t underestimate the power of simplicity. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
