She quickly looks for the nearest place to make a U-turn and heads back to her home office. She is a sales rep for Ballium Medical Devices, and Valley Hospitals is one of her biggest accounts. Apparently there was a damaged, rush shipment that rendered a device useless. Once back in her office she uses her computer to check the current inventory levels in Ballium's mainframe system, then places a rush order.
Most sales reps spend their time disconnected and out on the road.
While they all carry digital phones that are connected to the Internet, these devices are useless for navigating sites unless the information has been specially formatted to accommodate their phone or wireless PDA's display capabilities. In order to re-purpose or format information for use by a cell phone, a simple XSL stylesheet is developed that will format the XML information so that a hand held device can read it. Same data as on the desktop, just a different view. And she is five minutes early for her next appointment.