industry standards

hi!

i am a beginner in XML and doing research for a company i work for at the
moment for standard schemas for industry documents such as PO and Invoices.
my questions are:

1.  is there such a thing as a standard schema for industry documents in
XML?

2.  if there is, then have standards been set yet for these kind of
documents?  if so, where can i find them?  if not, what body is working on
them?

3.  if there isn't a standard schema for an industry document in XML, don't
you think there should be one?  if not, then why?

4.  for all the XML schema documents posted at biztalk.org, are any of them
standard at all?  or just standard for a certain company implementing them,
since each company has its own way of implementing a PO...?

can anyone help enlighten me on this?

many thanks,
yven

Received on Monday, 8 May 2000 09:26:06 UTC