Kang Lu

XML has been touted to the point where you may think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. As a technology, it's certainly achieved a level of respectable hype. However, does XML have what it takes to solve the problem of seamless business-to-business communication? To answer this question, I'd like to present XML under the limelight of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). Using human-to-human communication requirements, I'd like to extrapolate those into business-to-business communication requirements and show that XML, by itself, solves only a portion of the problem but can act as an enabler for solving the rest. How Do We Communicate? I'd like to focus on the topic of human-to-human communication. This is an analogy similar to the one that RosettaNet, an organization geared toward specifying the interfaces for electronic commerce, used in their overview. It's... (more)