ABSTRACT
The wide range of technologies, applications, and information sources in use today present the modern enterprise with an immense challenge to manage and work with these different data formats and systems. This internal challenge is further magnified by the efforts required to work with the different data formats and systems of other enterprises. Increasingly, eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is viewed as a key enabling standard for exchanging documents and data because of its ease of implementation and operational flexibility. It is now one of the key technology standards in a modern information systems architecture that enables an enterprise to be more flexible, responsive, and connected.
