That's what BizTalk does for you. You use a GUI to map one field to another. You can also specify a COM Component in the middle to mung the data first.


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>This is just like EDI. It's a standard but every implementation requires field <--> field mapping.
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>Oh, and in the electronics components industry you can 'map' (specify) a particular transistor or resistor from Mfg A. and when you try and use a transistor/resistor from Mfg B. made to the exact same specifications often it will simply not work.
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>XML gets us a long way towards the goal of a sort of universal language but there will always be the mapping issue IMO.