IBM DB2 pureXML with Industry Standards

Industry standards are key to success of many global market players. An industry standard is a specification of the protocol being adopted by each industry for communication and information exchange. Just as we have networking standards like FTP, TCP/IP and HTTP for information exchange over the wire, there are industry standards for each segment of the industry. For e.g. HL7 is a very popular industry standard in the healthcare segment. Similarly, we have XBRL which is widely used in the financial sector for reporting. Several advantages having a standard and adhering to them are

• Gives more visibility to the compliant organization as it is now part of a larger pool of organizations that have adherence to such a standard
• Gives more credibility to the compliant organization because adherence to the standard demonstrates the fact the organization has a well defined and universally accepted protocol for communication and information exchange
• Makes the entire process of communication and information exchange quicker and easier

So, how is IBM's DB2 pureXML related with these standards?
Well, as we know that DB2 pureXML technology has strong XML Schema support and all these industry standards have their specification as XML schema documents. The size and the number of these schema documents can vary with a given industry standard.
DB2 pureXML has the ability to not only register these complex industry standard schema documents but also to validate a given incoming XML document against these registered XML schema documents. Thus, this will ensure that your DB2 database never has any documents which comply with the given industry standard.

Here is a small video which discusses these industry standards and how pureXML can help implement these standards within your organization.

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The video also makes a reference to the dW website which is

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0705malaika/

This article has details on how we can quickly start developing application prototypes based on a given industry standard

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