Info about Xml

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Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML)

An Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard that allows businesses to locate each other on the Internet, form partnerships, and exchange business information.


The ebXML standard specifies protocols and mechanisms that allow businesses to use the Internet and XML to create and centrally store business profiles of their companies, find other companies providing desired types of business services, enter into partnership agreements, and collaborate through electronic document exchange such as invoicing, receipts, shipping notices, and so on. The ebXML standard is designed to promote electronic business between companies of any size located anywhere in the world using a common infrastructure (the Internet) and a common language for sharing structured information (XML).


The ebXML standard provides open specifications for how companies define their business processes, create and register company profiles and business processes, enter into trading agreements, and exchange business information using XML messages. Businesses can use ebXML to exchange business information with each other without being concerned about the structure of the underlying data processes of other partners in the process.


The ebXML standard is an initiative of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information and Standards (OASIS) and a United Nations (UN) standards body called UN/CEFACT (United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business). Development of the ebXML standard began in 1999 with the backing and support of IBM, Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, Commerce One, and a number of other companies.