Gerry,
>>Right, and here, if you're looking up line items on a supplier's site via XML and, say, Web Connection
and FoxPro <g> I'd think XML is a good way to go. That's not EDI though.
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>True, it's not EDI ... you've in fact reengineered the business process. But that was the point; don't just look at EDI and replace it with an equivalent XML process and think you've improved things.
Righto! However, our approach was to extend the process and, I suppose, eventually replace it <g> with us as the prime source of revenue reception. < bg > Greed then took over and, well, the rest is history as they say..
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>>But it was a lot of work and we suffered by being ahead of the curve in more ways than you'd think.<
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>Procedural languages were partly to blame. It's easier to build and maintain complex applications using OOP.
Sure. I'd like to see a set of COM Fox-->EDI routines.
Best,
DD
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