At 12:09 PM 10/11/2001, Todd Boyle wrote: >1. EDI never reached SMEs; has reached approx. 400,000 out of at >least 50 million businesses and has no answer whatsoever to >assist individual buying and selling. > >2. Meanwhile, across ALL application domains, not just business, >there has been a profound shift to XML as a simple syntax for >passing data and for innumerable common processing functions. >The runtime software is totally free and cross platform.
your second bullet is the key. xml does a few, small, essential things. none of them have anything to do with electronic data interchange. they have to do with ANY data interchange. hence it creates a very useful syntactic base for working on particular semantic domains SUCH AS electronic commerce. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://www.brandenburg.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.273.6464
