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Figure 4: A “Request for Quotation” Formatted as an EDI Message 23
Figure 5: Typical Flow of Business Transactions Based on EDI
Standards 25
Figure 6: Representative ebXML Transaction 38
Figure 7: Using a Registry of XML Data Elements and Structures 54

Abbreviations

ANSI American National Standards Institute
CIO chief information officer
DISA Defense Information Systems Agency
DOD Department of Defense
DTD document type definition
ebXML electronic business XML
EDGAR Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
GAO General Accounting Office
GSA General Services Administration
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
IT information technology
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards
OMB Office of Management and Budget
SEC Securities and Exchange Commission
UDDI Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration

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