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 Hi Baiss, Exporting to XML is a good step. But you can't get interoperability unless you export to a more specific, shared format. To have interoperability, the programs have to be able to import XML, too. If there is a widely used recipe XML language (which google tells me is the case: http://www.formatdata.com/recipeml/), then it would be a good idea to have your program allow export to (and import from) that format. If another program can read RecipeML, then you're all set. If not, but you want to interoperate, you could write a XSL stylesheet (or program) to transform RecipeML to their format... or you could just try to convince them to directly allow imports of RecipeML. I'm not sure if Quicken imports any form of XML; it would be nice, wouldn't it? But just dumping any old XML out to a file isn't going to get you interoperating with Quicken. If it does support any kind of XML import, you have to find out the specific form it has to take, and create that as output somewhere along the line. - Chris -----Original Message----- From: Baiss Magnusson [mailto:cascades@e...] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 2:41 PM To: XML-DEV Subject: Relating to XML I have a direct to java client web application which parses a XML file, I designed the XML syntax, of recipes into Enterprise Objects (EO's). My question is: How does one go about creating interoperability with other applications? For instance, there is another cookbook application around which has an export function and produces an XML type file of similar, but slightly different tag syntax than my cookbook program. I would like to import it's recipes. Is there something about XML services that I am missing? I had the same kind of problem with my application <www.track-your-finances.com>, where I dumped the transactions into an XML file, but then I found no use for those transactions as there was no application around which could use the file. I had thought that something like Quicken would be able to import the file, but that didn't appear to be the case. ---- Baiss Eric Magnusson <http://www.Track-Your-Finances.com> <http://www.CascadeWebDesign.com> ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> 
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