Sharing Data Between Two Companies

At this point, it is helpful to implement, to a certain extent, our example of the collaboration between the Alpha and Beta Companies. The scope of this discussion is to create the XML document that will contain a simple transaction between the two companies. For this example, we will create a simple document that contains the information contained in Table 12.1. This table defines the data that will be transferred from one company to the other.

Table 12.1. Specification for Data to be Transferred

Object	Category	Field
supplier
	name
		<companyname>
	address
		<street>
		<city>
		<state>
		<zip>
	product
		< type>
		< price>
		< count>