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In some cases there is a requirement to keep a full
fidelity copy. This is common in public safety reporting
and other litigious domains.
PDFs are archived for that reason. Otherwise, it is
the usual combination of timestamps and audit records
in the db. XML wasn't a player. SGML was rejected for
the same reasons. The term one sees is "final fixed format".
Digital and scanned signatures (from sig pads) are used.
Before anyone else says it, yes any of these can be
ditzed with digitally, so there are layers of security
around the hardware as well and significant concern about
the use of the Internet for legal transactions requiring
proof of fidelity. It's another 'good enough' situation
until someone defeats it in a very public case.
len
From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@microsoft.com]
Is there some legal requirement to keep a full fidelity copy of the
document? If not, I can't see why you don't just generate the XML as needed
from the database when export is needed. Most major database products have
had SQL<->XML mapping functionality for years.
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