Presents your  
XML AND WEB SERVICES E-NEWSLETTER for September 15, 2003 
 
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USE XML TO CREATE A FLEXIBLE SHOPPING CART   
  
Shopping carts are one of the most popular and most often-revised 
applications in service today; that's why using XML as the backbone of your 
shopping cart development is a wise decision. Shopping carts should be 
adapted to the changes in order processing and inventory of the parent 
e-commerce Web site, and using XML makes revising the shopping cart a
far simpler proposition.   
  
Judicious use of XML data islands can make shopping cart design 
surprisingly straightforward, and with the aid of a little JavaScript, you can 
even bring Mozilla and XMLHTTP together to benefit this approach. While 
this may sound like a rather bizarre cocktail of technologies, you can 
employ even more homogenous uses of XML to develop a flexible shopping cart.
  
This article walks you through the XML shopping cart development process
outlined above. Find out how to create an XML-based shopping cart that 
you can quickly and easily reconfigure to meet new system and consumer 
demands.   
http://ct.com.com/click?q=04-k9C0IFQQTWfUps7_QH3EEvpsb_dg   
  
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