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I think one of the primary areas that still needs to be
settled on the XML side is the issue of a schema definition language.
Until XSD becomes formally adopted, there is no standard for data type
definition, one of the critical aspects of any B2B site. Instead, we develop all
of these ad hoc solutions that will just fragment the existing set of
work.
Secondarily, I think that you need to see a little more
maturation on the part of XSLT developers. I see XSLT as an integral part of any
solution, but currently the number of people that "grok" this way of thinking is
still relatively small. That'll change -- we're kind of at the point right
now where we were with C++ in the early days of OOP, where there was a lot of
interest but the methodologies were still strongly driven by older structural
programming paradigms.
Finally, I think that it is important for the discussion
to realize that X12 can be subsumed into the XML space, rather than XML
being a replacement technology, and that the principle advantage to XML is that
it is an OPEN data standard. This isn't a technological issue, but rather a
political one, and as such doesn't necessarily lend itself to being solved with
finality.
-- Kurt
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Title: RFA Custom
- The Value and Use of XML Rachel Foerster
- RE: The Value and Use of XML Kurt Cagle
- RE: The Value and Use of XML Brian Curtis
- RE: The Value and Use of XML Brian Curtis
- Re: The Value and Use of XML R�my Marchand
- Re: The Value and Use of XML Steve Bollinger
