i spent a long time last night looking for some php code that would validate your xml based on an xml-schema.  no luck.  there seems to be support for something called schematron, but i didn't look into that.  it's probably going to take a while to get to that level of design. in the meantime, i'm going back to the XMLeditor to finish off the last few stages.  i would really like to get it working by the end of the weekend.  Then i can get it out there and mike and alan can comment on it.

“In an effort to encourage centralization of all online government services, including those using XML, the White House created the E-government initiative, which divides government technology into three roles: Government-to-Government (G2G), Government-to-Business (G2B), and Government-to-Citizen (G2C).” I read this recently in the following article about the surprising adaptation of the U.S. Government to XML. I was really struck by the notice that a government would act differently towards businesses, than towards citizens. On the surface, this may not seem so strange. We know that there are different taxation rules for companies as well as citizens, but do we ever wonder why. What is the real difference there? Corporations are afforded the rights of citizens, but what rights of businesses are...