Chapter 25. EDI and XML

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Along with Web publishing applications, electronic commerce over the Internet has been called one of the few "slam dunk" opportunities for XML technology. That is, Web commerce systems are one of the areas where XML is a strong fit and some significant successes are all but guaranteed. It is in Web commerce that the potential to use XML to design and implement data messaging may first come to fruition. In fact, there are vendors using such systems today in their particular application domains. There are a variety of approaches to creating Web commerce systems using XML, and surely more than one of them will be a visible success.

When discussing such ...

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