Ariba, Msoft Work Together on XML Standards for E-Commerce.Microsoft Corp and Ariba Inc will work together to integrated Ariba's Commerce XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. (cXML) with Microsoft's BizTalk framework See BizTalk. to define schema for communicating catalogs, orders and other e- commerce transactions. The companies say they will implement these e-commerce frameworks into their products. Ariba will add BizTalk to its e-commerce applications, while Microsoft will support cXML in its Commerce Server and BizTalk Server Software from Microsoft that provides integration between business processes within an enterprise and between different organizations. BizTalk Server uses protocol implementations called "adapters" to communicate with applications and includes built-in adapters and a framework for . More worrying news is that the pair think they have come up with a better way to do XML Data Type Definitions (DTDs). Ariba plans to use Microsoft's XML-Data Reduced (XDR (1) (EXternal Data Representation) A data format developed by Sun that is part of its networking standards. It deals with integer size, byte ordering, data representation, etc. and is used as an interchange format. ) in the next version of cXML. The partners describe XDR as "a richer way to define XML documents." As ever, no sooner does the industry come up with a standard than Microsoft and its partners decide it's time to "embrace and extend" it . |
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