>I understand everything you are saying, but like others here, when an application says it can export XML and another application states it can read XML as a data import. Then us as general users/developers would hope that the XML would work. But it does not in some cases (most that I have tried). I know it will get better over time as XML becomes more recognized, but the whole thing in a nutshell is that just because the product says XML does not mean 100 percent workability between applications of different companies. What I was hoping to get rid of is this senario of getting data into another companies application:
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>You want my data?
>OK how can I give it to you?
>No that export method we can't do.
>No we dont support that export method.
>Well how about I give you a text delimted file and email you the Schema.
>Then you could write your own conversion import routine.
>Fine...
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>So you see XML is what could make this better, but it is not there yet.

Brett,

Perhaps exporting/importing Excel files could be become the new standard... <s>

Renoir