> on 3/25/00 10:41 AM, Leon and Vicky Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Exactly. When I researched it about six months ago, there wasn't an
> > standard being adopted. If one emerges and "THE" standard for invoices,
> > someone will probably re-tool dump_invoices.php3. Until then,
> well, there
> > doesn't seem to be much point.
> >
> > Leon
>
> a 2 second google...
>
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=invoice+dtd>
>
>
>
> http://www.ofx.net/ofx/specview/INVOICE.cont.html
>
> this is pretty good site...seems to also be backed by Intuit, M$, etc...
>
> "The Open Financial Exchange specification is publicly available for
> implementation by any financial institution or vendor, and is
> being used by
> CheckFree, Intuit and Microsoft as the primary mechanism for supporting
> financial data exchange in their products and services beginning
> later this
> year. "
>
> Seems like supporting this would be a good selling point for FT...only
> bummer is that it is very non-open source...register to download
> the spec??
> WTF?
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> ---------
>
> this one looks cool as well...
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/visaXMLInvoice.html
>
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> ---------
>
> here is another one...
>
> http://www.redix.com/XML/dtdtoedi.htm
>
>
Like I said, there's no single standard yet, just a bunch in competition.
I hadn't seen the visa one yet, though. That one looks promissing.
>
> leon, what i would suggest that you do is provide an interface for
> implementing whatever XML DTD on the back end...btw, what parser does PHP
> provide support for? this is another nice thing about java...support for
> SAX2...;-) i'm doing a dynamic database map builder for Turbine right now
> and SAX2 makes it really trivial to implement...very cool...
PHP uses expat, but real usefulness won't come until the domxml extension is
100%. It's pretty hard to use the regular xml_ functions to do anything
other than convert from one SGML format to another.
Leon
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