优势 目前商业上最大的变化就是电子商务的出现。福特和通用汽车公司最近都宣布将在采购环节上实行电子商务(福特一年的采购量高达800亿美元)。由于这两家在商界的顶级地位,人们普遍认为,至少在美国,企业已进入了电子商务时代。要实行电子商务,企业间就必须用一种通用的语言在各自的计算机间进行数据交换。作为互联网上的第一代标记语言,HTML不足以担此大任,因为它只是定义了报文的格式 Advantages The biggest commercial change is the emergence of e-commerce. Ford and General Motors recently announced they will implement e-commerce in the procurement chain (Ford purchases up to 80 billion dollars a year). Because of the top two positions in the business world, it is generally agreed that, at least in the United States, businesses have entered an era of e-commerce. To implement e-commerce, enterprises must use a common language between their respective computers for data exchange. As the first generation markup language on the Internet, HTML is not enough for this task because it just defines the format of the message