Companies are always trying to use the Internet for communication internally and externally - a solution to this problem is XML.
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Introduction: Companies are always trying to use the Internet for communication internally and externally, and therefore they are always trying to make data transfer and communication as efficient and as easy to use as possible. Lately, enterprises want to be able to create a network between their suppliers, customers and themselves and therefore create a medium to exchange data and information effortlessly and resourcefully between partners. The problem with this is that each company has a different way in which their data is formatted, and they have different types of databases and DBMS's. This makes it very complex to exchange data between partners because of the different formats. One way that companies got around this was to write custom made programs that would transform the data into a format agreed upon by the partners that are exchanging data. This solution incurs high maintenance costs and therefore is not an ideal situation....

