>>So my curiousity at this stage is to learn what VFP developers are using it for ie what sort of applications are they building which are using XML and what benefits they see from using XML over more traditional techniques
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>we use XML in various ways in our application.
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>For example:
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>- data exchange between our application and other applications
>- storing information with deep structures (means deeper than .INI format) in a kind of config file for our application
>- passing an XML-like string as a parameter to a method/function/procedure instead of using a changing number of parameters
>- passing query results back as a return value from methods
>- passing back one return value when there is more than one value
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>HTH

Very interesting

Have you any applications which use XML to pass data directly to a Web based application or to retrieve it from the web? I have a client who looks at XML as a means of updating web applications on the fly and is putting forward the argument that this is the way forward rather than more traditional methods like emailing attachments or sending emails which can then be parsed and the data extracted into applications (for which XML would be very good)

Any comments?

Colin

Thanks