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in a recent commentary by mary jo foley regarding sharepoint (gates pins hopes on sharepoint), she notes:

Microsoft officials have characterized sharepoint as "the killer app for XML."

wow, that is a lot to swallow...and i'm not sure i could agree...at all.  i've been working with sharepoint for a while (even it's predecessor portal server v1 (aka beta) and team services) as well as being a part of a joint developer program project with a client for the current version.  sharepoint is great.  i like it.  it has a lot of value for a lot of organizations right out of the box.  yeah, okay some things are weird about it and some things require a little more heavy lifting.

but, the “killer app for XML”?! -- seriously...whomever those microsoft officials are, should sit down and program against the web services for sharepoint...while some provide some great features, the implementation of the web services is, well, odd.  got a field named “First Name”?  well you may not know it, but it is really named “ows_First_0x200_Name” and if your names are really long, your fields are truncated and start getting 0-based index names on them at some point.  i understand some of the reasons for this (would have been nice for a better section in the SDK to identify these anomalies), but it isn't the best implementation that could come out of the sharepoint web services in my opinion.  don't even get me started if you've renamed your field...

anyhow, i just thought this comment was far out there...

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