Michael Richardson wrote: > I don't want to assume they are on the same server. > I basically want to email you an invoice, and you be able to "upload" > it in such a way that it creates a purchase order. Probably you don't > want to actually commit it -- it needs to be edited/adjusted, but in > many cases, it might be just fine the way it is. > > For regular transactions between two companies, this would win. > > EBXML does this at the Fortune500 scale of enterprise, but seems to > have significant difficulties scaling down to the 4 person company, > where bookeeping is a PITA.
If you are obliged to design an in-house serialization and deserialization format for Orders and/or Invoices, YAML would be a very usable choice. Human-readable (and editable, per your use case), with good support in perl and other languages used in integration projects. http://yaml.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
