Thanks Bob.
I already chose the schemas I'll work with.
Now I need to know the best way to parse them.
In your app, you parse the strings mannually ? Or you use something like xmldom ?
thank again for your help.


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>>What would be the best strategies, tools, etc. ?
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>Francisco,
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>There's more to you question than I can answer, but let me see if I can give you a few ideas on places to start.
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>The very first place I would go would be to http://www.biztalk.org and read their specs and whitepapers. Then download a few schemas similar to what your system will require from the library and analyze how others have handled similar problems.
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>If you don't have Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2000, download it or order the CD. It is now in beta and available on their site. There's a lot of learning curve so the sooner you start, the better off you'll be. If you have the hardware and software to install BizTalk 2000, there is a very good tutorial (at least there was in the Technology Preview, I haven't received the beta yet) you can run through to help understand the system.
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>There is a book available now, "Understanding BizTalk", published by Sams (ISBN 0672317877) that is not bad as an introduction. I think I paid about $25 US for it from Fatbrain.com.
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>Designing the BizTalk schema is fairly easy, it's the application integration that's the killer. I have been working on an VFP app for several months that reads in XML schemas and generates VFP class definitions to match the schema. The classes can be used to gather user inputs and they provide methods for writing an XML output document in several formats, BizTalk being one of them. The app is working quite well, but it still needs a few more enhancements before it's ready for serious testing.
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>Good luck, I'm sure others will hop in with other info.