Engineering Global E-Commerce Sites

A practitioner's guide to developing global e-commerce sites, focusing on the design and engineering of Web forms for global data collection and alignment with widely recognized international standards, XML structures, and XML vocabularies. The author describes the globalization problem, identifies common design errors, provides a representative scenario, and introduces effective solutions and techniques.

Structured around a practical, "real-world" theme, this book is written for the hands-on practicioner in any mid- to large-sized company engaging in international ecommerce (B2C, B2B, etc.)

* Presents effective techniques for flexible and extensible data capture

* Provides techniques for using the most recognized international data standards and describes the synergies, value and importance of XML as a transaction definition medium

* Only book on the subject written from a software engineering point of view