ebXML Mission: To provide an open XML-based infrastructure enabling the global use of electronic business information in an interoperable, secure and consistent manner by all parties.

About ebXML: The United Nations body for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) have joined forces to initiate a worldwide project to standardize XML business specifications. UN/CEFACT and OASIS have established the Electronic Business XML initiative to develop a technical framework that will enable XML to be utilized in a consistent manner for the exchange of all electronic business data. Industry groups currently working on XML specifications have been invited to participate in the 18-month project. A primary objective of ebXML is to lower the barrier of entry to electronic business in order to facilitate trade, particularly with respect to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and developing nations. We welcome your participation in this important effort.

BizTalk is an industry initiative started by Microsoft and supported by a wide range of organizations, from technology vendors like SAP and CommerceOne to technology users like Ariba and BASDA. BizTalk is not a standards body. Instead, we are a community of standards users, with the goal of driving the rapid, consistent adoption of XML to enable electronic commerce and application integration.

Following the successful launch of its eBIS-XML initiative earlier this year, BASDA (the Business & Accounting Software Developers’ Association) has now introduced its latest eBIS-XML Web Shopping Cart schema which enables companies to transmit orders generated on their websites, directly into their back office, order entry and financial systems.

The BASDA eBIS-XML technology already allows direct exchange of purchase orders and invoices between different business software applications, via e-mail and the Internet. More than 150 national and international business application software developers are implementing the BASDA eBIS-XML interface, which will enable their software to generate and read the XML messages. A number of those companies have already had their software tested to ensure compliance to the BASDA eBIS-XML standard and have launched eBIS-XML enabled products which, in turn, are creating a growing network of users who are automating their supply chains.

What are we doing? XBRL.ORG is developing the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) for the preparation and exchange of business reports and data. The initial goal of XBRL is to provide an XML-based framework that the global business information supply chain will use to create, exchange, and analyze financial reporting information including, but not limited to, regulatory filings such as annual and quarterly financial statements, general ledger information, and audit schedules.

XBRL is freely licensed and facilitates the automatic exchange and reliable extraction of financial information among various software applications anywhere in the world.

The XBRL Specification and the first taxonomy for financial reporting of commercial and industrial companies under US GAAP was released on July 31, 2000. This was a major milestone for the XBRL framework.

m-e-c eagle is the first open source, OS independent, Java, XML and XSL based B2B integration software, which give you the right tool for it. It has an high basic functionality with many components, which give you a set of integrated tools, which make it possible to create any business solutions for interating different systems with each other.

OBOE is a EDI and EDI/XML Translator Package.

EDI Document Rules Engine - Reads in a XML and DTD file to build/parse an EDI Document or EDI/XML file. Sample XML File.

EDI Document Formatter and Browser - by utilizing the EDI Object classes with JAVA.AWT classes we've created a simple document browser. If you receive EDI documents in your mail then you can now look at them in a format that is easy to read. The mail program add-on is based on the RFC 1767 MIME Encapsulation of EDI Objects.

For the latest proposed changes MIME-based Secure EDI

EDI Translator - it parses an EDI document into Java objects. The objects are then used to interact with a GUI or database or some other process, e.g. a web page or batch program.

EDI/XML Translator - it parses an EDI/XML file into Java objects. The objects are then used to interact with a GUI or database or some other process, e.g. a web page or batch program.

Envelope builder - it takes the EDI Objects Java objects and builds an EDI document. The EDI document can then be sent via email, to a VAN for transmission, transmitted using a proprietary message delivering system, print out and faxed... etc.

EDI Objects - each transaction set, table, segment data element is defined in a class. The classes defines business logic, relationship rules to other transaction sets, tables, segments and data elements, data element rules validation ... etc.

This page provides the starting point for information on El.pub concerned with the Interactive Electronic Publishing. It provides an on-going overview of the sector, and links to information about the projects being supported through the European Commission's IST and 5th Framework R&D programmes.

The Interactive Electronic Publishing (IEP) sector of the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme is part of Multimedia Content and Tools, Key Action III of the IST Programme, which itself falls within the the 5th Framework RTD Programme. The reserch and development projects funded by the Interactive Electronic Publishing sector focus primarily on generating, managing, personalising creative digital content.

XML and EDI Provide a standard framework to exchange different types of data -- for example, an invoice, healthcare claim, project status -- so that the information be it in a transaction, exchanged via an Application Program Interface (API), web automation, database portal, catalog, a workflow document or message can be searched, decoded, manipulated, and displayed consistently and correctly by first implementing EDI dictionaries and extending our vocabulary via on-line repositories to include our business language, rules and objects. Thus by combining XML and EDI we create a new powerful paradigm different from XML or EDI!