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This might not seem special to others, but I thought it was very interesting to see a reference to XML in my morning postal mail the other day. In my mail, from the Government of Canada's tax department, was a bunch of forms and some information regarding filing business taxes for my company. A flyer was included titled "News for Electronic Filers", and included (amongst other information) the following two titled paragraphs: ===8<--- Internet filing Original and amended T4, T4A, T4RSP, T4RIF, and T4A-NR returns can now be filed using our "Internet File Transfer (XML)" application. For information, visit our Web site at www.cra.gc.ca/t4internet Avoid processing delays Your submission must conform to our eXtensible Markup Language (XML) specifications. Returns filed in other formats will not be accepted and will be considered not filed. You must verify your submission using a validating parser to ensure that your submission is correct, and so we can process it. You can find validating parser software on the internet. ===8<--- Except for spelling "eXtensible" incorrectly by capitalizing the "X" (the standard document does not have a capital "X") I thought it was neat that my government is promoting the use of XML to the general public and felt it sufficient to use the succinct description above to get people familiar with the technology to use it. And looking on their web site, the XML guidelines go back to 2002. Now, did we use it? Actually, no ... we only have to file two T4 slips and my wife had already used their simple web interface to do so before I noticed the flier mentioned XML. We aren't electronic filers, so the form didn't get looked at. But a company with thousands or even just hundreds of T4 slips would probably have their information in a database and I was pleased at the thought that they could merely create a database query to create an XML instance that could be validated by the government schema and then filed. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken -- Upcoming XSLT/XSL-FO hands-on courses: Washington,DC 2006-03-13/17 World-wide on-site corporate, govt. & user group XML/XSL training. G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@C... Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) Male Cancer Awareness Aug'05 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/bc Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal
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