XML Sapiens treats any site or a family of web sites (multitude of sites and their language versions) in three dimensions: data, its presentation and functionality. In other words, any web document includes unique data, a presentation template and a functional model. In this way, while generating a web document the CMS parser analyzes it?s template for XML Sapiens objects.
In previous articles, I have discussed the vision of Dynamic e-business and the available technologies that enable us to achieve that vision, namely SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. For the inquisitive reader the entire topic of Dynamic e-business is nothing more than another form of distributive computing. The justification for this new distributed computing model is cross-platform and cross-programming language interoperability.
It is also important for you to realize that many vendors are still using the older IVR technology. You will want to conduct research on Interactive Voice Response systems so that you can give clients a good reason to use it. Being able to show the advantages that VoiceXML has over IVR is very important. If you are not able to do this efficiently, you will not be able to win clients.
In his turn on the Soapbox, info-management developer and author Kevin Williams tells why he's sold on XML Schema for the structural definition of XML documents for data. He looks at four features of XML Schema that are particularly suited to data representation, and he shows some examples of each. Code samples include XSD schemas and schema fragments.
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