Posted by Paul Lautman on 01/20/08 20:21

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> No, I looked into json and decided it wasn't as good - at least for my
> project.
>
> The other option I considered was a CSV file. It would have worked
> for the time being as all of the data was related - and could easily
> be expressed in a spreadsheet, for instance.
>
> But I was afraid perhaps later they would want other data. The xml is
> more flexible and would allow that.
>
> And thanks for the link - it's very similar to what I did. I've
> actually done a fair amount of VBScript code (although I'm no where
> near an expert), so it wasn't hard.

Did you ever try the aspxml object
(http://www.example-code.com/asp/xmlCreate.asp and
http://www.xml-training-guide.com/a-xml-articles23.html) or the ADODB.Stream
method (http://www.xoc.net/works/tips/getxml.asp). MS doesn't seem to even
mention the former on their site.

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