Subject: RE: Using XML as well as HTML

From: David Burdett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:04:09 +0100

I agree that XML should be recommended, the problem is how do you discover
if the consumer has XML/XSL support in their IOTP implementation? 

If a merchant or one of the other trading roles is unsure, then they'll
never send order descrciptions, etc, in XML to the consumer. On the other
hand if a particular IOTP consumer client software becomes highly popular
that supports XML/XSL, then it is reasonable safe for merchants to use XML
and more might do so.

Finally, you could argue that since to do IOTP at all, there must be XML
support then at least half the solution *must* be there. In this case, you
could recommend displaying a message to the user of the problem and
displaying XML in a very simple way.

David

> ----------
> From: 	Donald E. Eastlake 3rd[SMTP:[email-masked]]
> Sent: 	29 April 1999 10:04
> To: 	Ietf Trade WG
> Subject: 	Re: Using XML as well as HTML 
> 
> I believe that support for XML should be recommended but not required.
> 
> Thanks,
> Donald
> 
> From:  David Burdett <[email-masked]>
> Message-Id:  <[email-masked]>
> To:  Ietf Trade WG <[email-masked]>
> Date:  Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:17:05 +0100
> 
> >Following on from my other email on using HTML, the spec doesn't
> currently
> >describe how XML could be used. I think that it should. We could provide
> >similar guidelines for XML/XSL to the ones for HTML. 
> >
> >Who thinks this is a good idea?
> >
> >David
> >
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