Ken,
>>Bret,
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>>I'm starting to get confused on this thread. It was my basic understanding that the major point to XML was to be
able to cross software applications and platforms. If this isn't the case with the Foxpro XML functionality, then what is the purpose of it?
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>>Renoir
>
>It can, but it will likely require some mapping/transformation probably via XSLT. This is what BizTalk Server does with it's XML Mapper, and many other tools/products as well as using VisualXSLT from ActiveState. This issue does not relate to VFP, it relates to XML usages in general.
This is just like EDI. It's a standard but every implementation requires field <--> field mapping.
Oh, and in the electronics components industry you can 'map' (specify) a particular transistor or resistor from Mfg A. and when you try and use a transistor/resistor from Mfg B.
made to the exact same specifications often it will simply not work.
XML gets us a long way towards the goal of a sort of universal language but there will always be the mapping issue IMO.
Best,
DD
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