L2X SmartTag - Forecross Corporation provides innovative Legacy to XML solutions that map legacy data items to XML tags improving data integrity in XML documents. From a technology standpoint, successful deployment of legacy applications to the Web demand data integrity. After all, in order for legacy applications to use XML, first the application needs to know what data items the XML tags refer to. L2X SmartTag is an easy to use, graphical interface tool specifically designed to map XML elements with their corresponding legacy data items.
Data integrity involves the complicated process of exchanging correct data.
For example, receiving an order date when you need a settlement date would be a case of data integrity breaking down. The reason it's such a big obstacle is because in today's computer world, different companies use different names to describe the same piece of data. The way that XML forces data integrity is by issuing one standard element name that participating companies can agree to use. However, that is only one piece of the solution. What remains to be done individually by each company is the difficult task of mapping their existing legacy data items to the new XML tags.