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RE: Personal reply to Edd Dumbill's XML Hack Article wrt W3C XML Schema
- From: "David E. Cleary" <davec@progress.com>
- To: XML DEV <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:38:47 -0500
> <foo>
> <value>20010312T143213</value>
> </foo>
>
> For the sender, the value element contains a batch ID
> that uniquely identifies a batch of transactions.
> The sender happens to use a timestamp as the batch ID,
> even though the value element may contain any
> string that uniquely identifies the batch.
>
> For the receiver, the value element contains the
> date and time when the message was created. The
> receiver is not interested in batch IDs, but is
> interested in the creation date and time.
So because I chose to use UUIDs to identify a batch of transactions, your
receiver fails even though semantically I am correct. Doesn't sound like a
smart way to create interoperable systems. Neither ebXML or BizTalk mingle
timestamps and ids in such a fashion, and I don't see why anyone would want
to.
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David Cleary
Progress Software
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