An Open, industry-neutral schema for transaction processing

[Bill la Forge]

I am interested in developing an XML schema for transaction processing that
could form part of the basis for an open platform for document-based processing.

Has this already been done? Does anyone else have a similar interest?

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bill la Forge <b.laforge at jxml.com>
To: <soapbof at eng.sun.com>; <soap at discuss.develop.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 1:49 AM
Subject: January 26 meeting comments


> While impressed with what SOAP accomplishes--language neutral serialization--I
> find myself part of the group that seems to be looking for a platform for document
> processing.
> 
> Now, it may well be that Microsoft's Biz-talk can contribute to such a platform,
> but it also looks like there needs to be a transactional component as well.
> 
> (One thing I like about namespaces is that we can--hopefully--deal with
> orthoganal issues in different schema.)
> 
> The Jan 26 meeting raises, at least in my mind, one question:
> 
>     Would it be worth developing a schema for transaction processing?
>     And TIP seems like a good place to start:
>         ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2371.txt
> 
> Mind, I am not proposing that we simply replace TIP with XML.
> TIP was never intended to pass content, just control flow. 
> 
> I'd be more interested in a TIPML which also serves as a wrapper
> for content--even if the content itself is nothing more than a set of URLs.
> 
> Is anyone else interested in undertaking such an effort?
> 
> Bill la Forge,
> JXML
> 
> 



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