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FAQ's

Technical Questions

Answers to technical questions that have been asked by architects and developers. It focuses on the details of the standard itself, rather than on the approach. This section might best be described as describing various design decisions.

As additional questions about the details of the Document Type Definitions (DTDs) occur they will be answered here, as will decisions about data elements, code tables and other reference standards.

Q. Will e-mail attachments be an acceptable way of transmitting XML documents to manufacturers?

A.

Q. Is the purchase order schema in its final form?

A.

Q. Do you have a sample XML document for the purchase order schema that we could look at? In other words, we would like to see the merchandise being ordered from the factory on a purchase order form, and what the corresponding XML document looks like.

A.

Q. I have read several tutorials about creating XML documents. It appears to be a fairly simple style of document in the tutorials. We have downloaded the P.O. schema, but have not figured out how to work with it yet (we just downloaded a couple days ago). How do we go from the schema, to an XML document?

A.

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