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G. Ken Holman wrote: > Except for spelling "eXtensible" incorrectly by capitalizing the "X" > (the standard document does not have a capital "X") I thought it was > neat that my government is promoting the use of XML to the general > public and felt it sufficient to use the succinct description above to > get people familiar with the technology to use it. > > And looking on their web site, the XML guidelines go back to 2002. > > Now, did we use it? Actually, no ... we only have to file two T4 > slips and my wife had already used their simple web interface to do so > before I noticed the flier mentioned XML. We aren't electronic > filers, so the form didn't get looked at. > > But a company with thousands or even just hundreds of T4 slips would > probably have their information in a database and I was pleased at the > thought that they could merely create a database query to create an > XML instance that could be validated by the government schema and then > filed. neat....in the Czech Republic XML usage is rampant throughout the government. This is my favourite example, from the website that lists all companies in Czech (www.justice.cz). http://portal.justice.cz/uvod/JusticeEN.aspx look for xml for Register of Bankrupts. cheers, Jim Fuller
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