D.16 What's the story on XML and EDI?

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> Electronic Data Interchange has been used in e-commerce for many years to exchange documents between commercial partners to a transaction. It has required special proprietary software, but there are now moves to enable EDI documents to travel inside XML. Details of developments are at http://www.xmledi.com/ and there is a guideline document at http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Floor/5815/guide.htm.