Mark Wilson I am the creator of TopXML. I am available for international and local (Australia) contracts. I am a Solution Architect/Business Analyst. I have worked in IT in several countries (NZ, Australia, South Africa, UK) building and training teams for government and very large non-governmental organizations. I am ex-Microsoft Consulting Services. I wrote the first book on Microsoft XML published in 2000 called XML Programming with VB and ASP. Most recently I have been building tools for the SEO industry. Ask me for a 37 point SEO health-checkup for your website.
First posted :
03/13/2001
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Connecting E-commerce Systems with XML
There is increasing need to connect different e-commerce systems driven by the
following requirements: ·mergers and acquisitions require different IT systems
to be combined ·business-to-business solutions requires exchanging data with
business partners Connecting systems together results in increased efficiency,
a decrease in erroneous data, and speeds up the business process. It has become
clear that XML is the way to connect these systems together. Many Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as SAP are providing XML connectors to
their system. Also, XML is becoming part of the operating system platform,
as in Microsoft Windows 2000. This talk will demonstrate how to use XML to
exchange data between different E-commerce systems. The types of problems
addressed in talk are:
· taking data from a legacy system and converting it to XML
· converting comma separated format to XML
· converting one XML schema and converting it to another XML schema
· converting XML to a comma separated format
"Real world" examples will be used for converting one XML schema to another XML
schema (for example taking a cXML schema and converting it to an SAP XML schema)
Technologies used for showing the conversions will include:
· XML Document
Object Model
· SAX
· XSLT
· ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
· BizTalk Server
The attendees will be able to take away codes samples in the form of XML document,
XSLT documents and VBScript code.
