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On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:17:38 +0100 Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > - System > > - Produces pretty pages and creates pdf for emailing > Thats what I want to avoid - with proper data interchange these should be > pointless. No more 'here have a pretty document to print out so someone can > type it into our system. I used to parse text documents into an ERP system > and then some fwit decided DOCs and then PDF would be more fun. I've looked for various means of doing this many times before - no standard exists and the range of values that might need to be supported is too long to make a sensible standard - it would need to be a multi-layer standard. Even just a split between a wholesale invoice and a service invoice would be a start. > But there are no XBRL codes for invoices etc - this seems to be at too micro a > level for XBRL which surprises me with this anal government of ours! They > dont want to know you've bought 67,000 widgets just how much they get to tax > you on it. Theres a whole space to be filled here - and if we can do it Open > then thats good for FLOSS in general. > I think you defined half of whats needed above! It's the other half that is the problem. :-) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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