B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

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XML NAMESPACE EXAMPLE
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Any element name that begins with 'buyer:' prefix
defined by the 'http://www.ds.org/buyers' namespace.
element beginning with 'gs:' has meaning defined by
the 'http://gs.org' namespace.
has meaning
Similarly, any
whoever owns
6.4.8. Brief introduction to the components of XML
Any XML document is composed of a series of entities, with each
entity containing one or more logical elements and each element
containing one or more attributes that describe how to process that
entity. XML defines the syntax for expressing the relationships among
entities, elements and attributes that together make up an XML document.
Based on these relationships, applications identify the component parts
of each document.
The structure of an XML document is validated through XML
schema or DTD that declares permitted elements, entities and attributes
and their relationships.
Elements and attributes
The primary components described in a DTD are elements and attributes.
Together they are responsible for establishing the logical structure of