| XML: hype or hope? |
Title: XML: hype or hope?
Author(s): Wil Janssen, Johan Koolwaaij & M. Stefanova
Reference: Giga Transaction Services deliverable, GigaTS D2.2.4, Telematica Instituut, Enschede
Keywords: Web services
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Few internet technologies have attracted the amount of attention that XML has. It is called the lingua franca of the Internet and the follow-up of EDI. No self-respecting e-business software provider can afford not to work with XML. Many companies are looking at the possibilities of XML for them. This document is intended for those enterprises in the e-business community that want to gain more in-de th knowledge about XML and its application in business-to-business document exchange.
In this report we want to provide some insight in what XML is and what it can do for you. We go into details on what XML is, and on how to handle XML. In the second part of this document we describe a number of applications of XML in finance, trade and multimedia. Also, we discuss generic frameworks to support XML and XML document exchange. This overview is by no means complete. The pace at which new standards and applications are being developed is too high to allow for completeness. Yet, the applications presented represent most of the important developments worldwide.
In doing so we try to resolve an important question: is XML primarily hype, and will it soon
be forgotten, or does it really bring something to the e-business community?
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