[ic] *ML to transmit an entire catalog, ECML
Mike Heins
mikeh@minivend.com
Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:26:29 -0500
Quoting cfm@maine.com (cfm@maine.com):
>
> re: *ML to transmit an entire catalog and ECML, two questions
>
> 1)
> I'm looking for a *ML schema suitable for transmitting an entire
> catalog. There must be such (or more than one) thing. Can anyone
> suggest what to look at?
Not the foggiest idea what you are talking about. What is *ML?
>
>
> 2)
> Along the path I looked at ECML, a wallet API. If we converted
> our checkout forms as they suggest, does this mean that any ECML
> wallet would just work with our catalogs? I note that Yahoo
> wallet is not on the list at www.ecml.org.
>
> This would be a painful transition, mapping and reorganizing all those
> fields, but my experience is that any solid standard is almost always
> better than the results of many years of ad hoc evolution. :-)
Have you looked at Vend::ECML? It remaps the field names to Interchange
names and vice versa for sessions....
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