| - XML is not a language; it's a metalanguage
- XML tags have no predefined meaning
- Platform independence requires interoperable data
representation
- Interoperability requires large-scale semantic
standardization
- Hard to do technically
- Hard to do organizationally
- Tools and methodologies don't really help much beyond
basic information display and version management
- In the end, meaning has to be defined by human
beings in a committee process. Machines cannot do this.
- B2C and B2B have different web services requirements
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