>For anybody who hasn't seen it, BizTalk is an application framework that requires that you build a BizTalk compatible Schema for each of your businees messages (the schema standard is not complex, and building a valid BizTalk schema is not difficult). Once you have done this, your application speaks 'BizTalk', and all messaging to and from your application is accomplished with XML documents validated by your custom Schema.
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>Hell Eric, anyone can create their own parameter string schema and parser. For example, my of my framework classes accept an array in the Init and, if evaluated as an array, is parsed to set (or add) properties.
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Right but the benefit here is standartization of the schemas

Arnon