If you go to this site www.CommunityB2B.com and read their 'B2B Fundamentals' white paper Under item 3. bullet point EDI, it states that EDI has no standards and implies that XML does. Does anyone have any idea which research and marketing firm they could have gotten this morsel of brilliance? Or, Did they just not bother to do any research at all? Granted! Their purpose is to promote the use of XML, but there is no way that XML without application/adherence of the EDI standards will replace the process of traditional EDI. Do they not get that XML is just a means of formatting the data, and that what makes EDI is the standards that it uses? XML without some sort of standards to adhere to is just fancy HTML, and completely useless in the EDI arena. Now I'll get off the soap box! Thanks, Randy Stogner EDI Analyst Arch Wireless email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.arch.com ======================================================================= To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/
