The ebXML Initiative
You will probably have read in the computer press that business-to-business e-commerce is likely to greatly exceed in value business-to-consumer e-commerce. One of the foundations of the projected growth in e-commerce is the capability to "freely" exchange information between businesses.
As you saw in the "Discipline-Specific Markup Languages" section in this chapter, a large number of initiatives are already underway. Quite a few of these are targeting a wide scope of e-business or e-commerce activity. However, there are potential areas where discipline-specific markup languages might clash. Suppose that the automotive industry has a single XML-based standard, and suppose that the steel industry also has an XML-based standard, ...
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