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To: BMcV who wrote (2914)12/1/1999 5:56:00 PM
From: Bob Howarth  Read Replies (2) of 3646
 
XML Intro book is worth getting. I have tried to summarize but I give up. The idea, however, is to standardize on tag names and their meanings within a specific area (such as a standard set of tags for chemistry, or invoices, or anything else) using XML meta-language, and also define a standard way to be able to map any XML message to a presentation format using cascading style sheets. For example, the information in a customer database could be exported into a defined XML language for 'customers' that some industry group defines and then transported to any system that understands this XML 'customer' language. Folks that want to define how the information appears in the browser can independently define style sheets, and a standard utility program can be used to map the XML through the style sheet onto the browser. Next few years will explode with cool industry specific uses of this type of thing as groups get together and define standard sets of XML tage in specific industry areas.

The search engine thing would work better because information searched could be in XML tag sets, thus making the search engine able to un-ambiguously find the stuff you are looking for. Lots of work to do to get everyone to put their information in this format, eh? 3 years from now it may be really amazing.

Supply chain stuff is an obvious place where groups could define invoices etc to allow catalogs of parts to be published, orders placed, etc. This is what GM and Ford are doing in their supply chains.
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