We have been doing business for thousands of years. Now we want
to do business electronically. There are two ways this can happen. - Change all of our business and legal practices to optimize
electronic data processing.
- Structure data processing to model our business and legal
practices.
A traditional business transaction is an exchange of
documents. XML documents model existing financial and
commercial data very well. The rapid adoption of XML means that we are choosing ease of
data management over ease of programming. |