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At 9:03 am +0000 28/1/05, Michael Kay wrote: > > yet, at the same time, the amount of use of xml in business seems >> if anything to be declining.... in a typical industrial >> area, Sydney, >> Germany, UK, there isn't a lot of practical use of xml.. > >I don't believe for a minute that the IT director of a large company can >measure how much XML is being used within his own organization, so as far as >I'm concerned, anyone who thinks they can assess the level of use in a given >country is making wild guesses and is almost certainly wrong. > >Let's see some metrics, for example downloads of open source software, job >advertisements. > >Everyone who files their tax return online in the UK does so using XML. How >many such examples would persuade you that there is a lot of practical use >of XML in the UK? Indeed - the e-Government Unit (a part of the UK Cabinet Office) is forecasting that 96% of UK Govt services will be available electronically by the end of 2005 (the figure stood at 75% last October). In all cases of transactional services it is XML that is exchanged (except for a few business-oriented legacy EDI services). Take-up is another issue of course, but it is rising across the board - the personal tax return service that Michael refers to has been running for over four years now and take-up is doubling year-on-year (with nearly 25% of all those required to file now doing it electronically). -- Andy Greener Mob: +44 7836 331933 GID Ltd, Reading, UK Tel: +44 118 956 1248 andy@g... Fax: +44 118 958 9005
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