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Even before the World Wide Web Consortium published the official standard in 1998, XML has been tipped as the logical complement and potential successor to EDI. As early as the fall of 1997, the XML-EDI group, a grass-roots group of XML hackers and EDI users, were working on finding a way to use the new language to transmit EDI transaction sets.
Today, there are business-to-business XML schema wherever you look. RosettaNet is working out the PIPs (partner interface processes) for supply chain transactions in the semiconductor and high-tech industries; the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is set to deliver ebXML any time now; the financial services industry is promoting FinXML. Vendors from Microsoft to SAP are falling over each other to produce XML...