Solomon H. Simon - XML: eCommerce Solutions for Business and IT Managers [Repost]

"Big Picture" insights into one of the hottest, most promising eCommerce technologies If your company uses massive amounts of data from different sources, XML could be the Holy Grail. Using today's conventional programs and processes, data may have to be translated and reformatted more than five times during data exchange and eCommerce. XML has the potential to speed up ebusiness applications and integration efforts, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data.