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Using XML with Legacy Business Applications
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Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

by Michael C. Rawlins
August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
15h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Packaging

The key problem with bundling together a group of XML documents for transmission is that you can't just append them all together into one file. Doing so will result in one big, malformed document that most XML parsers will reject when they hit the root Element of the second document. Despite the fact that people have been aware of this problem since XML was first proposed for electronic commerce, there isn't yet a universally accepted solution.

If you've picked up on one of the themes of this chapter, you shouldn't be surprised to learn that your packaging options are somewhat dependent on your choice of transport. Here are a few options using proven, readily available technology.

  • MIME attachments: MIME allows several XML documents ...

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