Re: electronic invoices

[Michael Richardson <..hidden..>]

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>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Kowalczyk <..hidden..> writes:
    >> I don't want to assume they are on the same server.  I basically
    >> want to email you an invoice, and you be able to "upload" it in
    >> such a way that it creates a purchase order. Probably you don't
    >> want to actually commit it -- it needs to be edited/adjusted, but
    >> in many cases, it might be just fine the way it is.
    >> 
    >> For regular transactions between two companies, this would win.
    >> 
    >> EBXML does this at the Fortune500 scale of enterprise, but seems
    >> to have significant difficulties scaling down to the 4 person
    >> company, where bookeeping is a PITA.

    Jeff> If you are obliged to design an in-house serialization and
    Jeff> deserialization format for Orders and/or Invoices, YAML would
    Jeff> be a very usable choice.

  I agree, if I start from scratch, YAML would be great.
  I use it regularly in Ruby.

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