B2B integration w/ XML

Your thoughts...?

[Williamsburg]

We have numerous venders and a lot of paper going back and forth - invoices, purchase orders, etc. Additionally, we maintain 10+ product feeds.

XML seems like the way to go... Anyone care to share their experiences (good or bad), tips, tricks, articles, resources.

...Thanks...

[macrost]

Williamsburg,
Well it is a little late tonight for me, but here are my thoughts.

XML is great, especially if you have to deal with other "entities". When I say that, I say that a business that uses say, Perl and the other that may use .Net can effectively communicate via XML for transactions, or information transfers. That is a big thing that XML can do, it can hold/transfer data between systems that are totally opposite of each other.

As a matter of fact, javascript can even load an xml doc and work it, just to give you an idea.

XML as either a b2b or b2c solution is great, as long as it is designed right. It just depends upon your application needs.

Mac