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At 10:18 pm -0500 28/1/05, David Lyon wrote: >XML use is slowly increasing, yes. So anybody selling xml >products would see more interest in them, of course. > >My revised generalisation is that transmitted xml on-the-wire >is not growing that fast, or as fast as one would expect. Doubling of take-up year-on-year (for UK tax returns) is not too shabby... >Where there are xml transmitting applications, most seem to >replace apps that previously existed which did exactly the >same thing. ie tax apps. Online tax applications have existed >for years, now they transmit in xml. Is that a new application? >or just a rewrite of an old one. Not in the UK - there was/is a "legacy" EDI service operated exclusively by agents but it is small and static, and in any case less than 50% of UK taxpayers who are required to file are represented by an agent. The majority didn't have an electronic means of submission until the XML-based service came along. >Let's move onto xml in accounting. Quickbooks can support >xml. Xml can be used to "load" and "read" data in and out >of the products. > >But widespread on-the-wire use of xml from one accounting >system to the other isn't popular as far as I know. Watch out for the XBRL ground-swell.... -- 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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