RE: XML Gave A War, But Nobody Came

[Bob Haugen <linkage@interaccess.com>]

Jon Bosak wrote:
>While I agree that it's not possible in most cases to define a
>single *simple* standard PO (or whatever) that will suit all
>purposes, I believe that it is possible (a) to define a horribly
>complex standard PO that will suit just about all purposes, and
>more interestingly (b) to define a reasonably small number of
>standard POs that will serve just about all purposes.
>But only time will tell whether the second hunch is right.

(not to pick on Jon out of context, but I need a quote to hook 
my question:)

Has anybody made a commonality and variability analysis
of purchase orders in EDI to determine how much is
common and where the variability resides?

(That might help to ground some of this discussion.)

Respectfully,
Bob Haugen
(who doesn't even like purchase orders...)