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XML Unleashed
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XML Unleashed

by Michael Morrison
December 1999
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
992 pages
22h 3m
English
Sams
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A Business Use of WIDL

Let's look at a typical situation where WIDL can help.

Dr. Smith and Dr. Brown run an efficient practice. Every week they run numerous tests on their patients and send those tests to one of three labs: ACME Labs, Hippocratic Labs, or Mercy Hospital Labs. These laboratories are extremely efficient and have an automatic service whereby all of their results are placed in a database, one for each lab. From there, the results can be accessed by a password-protected Web site.

In many ways, this has made the doctors' task much easier. They no longer have the problem of patients returning for visits without the results of their tests. Now they have a nurse who spends a significant portion of his time accessing the Web sites, downloading ...

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