Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

Another Simple Example: Changing Tag Names

Hello World has value only as an instructional tool. However, this next example comes very close to something you might actually use in a real-life situation. Suppose that your desktop bookkeeping system and your customer contact organizer are both able to import and export XML documents. Although it is unlikely, let us further suppose for this example that both systems use exactly the same information. However, they use different Element names to tag that information. Suppose that a prospect you've been courting quite awhile finally places an order, and you need to move their contact and billing information into the bookkeeping system. You can extract the information from your contact management system, ...