Martin, Steve,
Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's about time we all recognize this myth
and get off this attempt to "standardize" documents. It just ain't going to
happen in anyone's lifetime. I do agree with and support the concept of
certain standardized "core components" that can be reused and whose semantic
is determined by the context. Context is everything!
Rachel
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From: Martin Bryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 2:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Steve L. Bollinger
Subject: Re: The XML/EDI has no Clothes!
Steve Bollinger wrote:
> The idea of a "standard" PO or ASN is a myth and will never happen in a
> competitive worlds. this is the same myth that troubles any exchange of
> business documents regardless of format (X12, XML, etc).
Seconded. The best one can hope for is that each individual type of PO will
reuse certain core components that are relevant to its contexts, and that
you can resuse modules made to process those core components in more than
one context. Anything else is a myth.
Martin Bryan
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