design

[Vivek Mongolu]

Hey Elliotte,
we are tryin to develop a new web app but this one could be used from another web app.
Two web app would still be using the same data. so the data model remains the same. my question is can we use XML here. I was thinking the new web app can actually generate an XML instead of HTML and have a transformation to html. is this possible??
or is there another way??
Thanks in advance
Vivek

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

It's absolutely possible. XML is a very convenient way to move data between two systems. It's vastly superior to HTML for this purpose because it's so much more flexible. Your documents can reflect the information they contain rather than the preconceived structures of the language.

[Ko Ko Naing]

Hi vivek,
I guess you might want to have a look at this thread, in which we discussed about the users data exchange using XML... We discussed some issues about the advantages and disadvantages of using XML in storing username-password pairs... Lasse made very reasonable point of view in that thread as well... I hope it might be helpful to your app as well...