But until the business community agrees on how an XML purchase order or other document should be represented with XML coding tags, the markup language is of limited practical use between e-commerce trading partners. Wilkinson says cXML promises to be the first step in creating the equivalent of EDI transaction sets. A DTD, which is based on XML tags, is simply a way of representing fields for a specific type of document, such as a purchase order. An XML tag for a price or number of items, for example, makes it easy for a computer to automatically pull that data and deliver it to another application. But this work is proceeding far too slowly, Wilkinson says.
Customers are optimistic about the plan.
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