[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
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
|
