Message text written by Orin Rehorst
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The answers below, "There is no XML standard," taken with "For each EDI
Transaction set, there must be an equivalent XML set of DTD's and/or
Schema's that are agreed upon," beg the question: "Is XML ready for
industry
groups to build DTDs, schema, and get going with it?"
Orin Rehorst
Port of Houston Authority
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Orin,
Please see the ebXML initiative in this context: http://www.ebXML.org
the Requirements Document draft should shortly be available.
Notice your ststement above vis EDI trnasaction sets and XML.
Since an EDI TS is a folding together of in many cases hundreds of
different industry specific definitions into a single representation (eg:
850 PO)
logic tells you that XML allows the 'unfolding' of the puzzle. Therefore
you
would NOT expect 1-to-1 equivalence, nor depend on it. Instead you see
the
focus that the XML/edi Fusion of Five has shown for the past three years
being echoed in the ebXML requirements. Simply slapping a XML veneer
over an EDI TS does not solve the bigger problem space, nor does taking
base XML syntax as per W3C syntax spec's buy you enough to do the
business job.
Since the W3C does only the syntax spec's they do not
consider the business cases - therefore this is why the work of ebXML is
vital in developing real standards for eBusiness and real definitions of
syntax based on XML that implementors can ensure interoperability with.
DW.
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