Solutions for business and system integration must be focused to large and small enterprises together.
Integration requires the adoption of public and agreed standards for information exchange, they must be freely available to the firms of different countries.
The proposed approach supports the direct peer-to-peer exchange between firms, center of services or mediators is allowed but is not a requirement.
The integration between firms is built starting from a specific sectorial perspective.
Building the Moda-ML framework the following choices have been done:
Data exchanges are based on electronic documents (messagges) using XML. A different template of message for each different transaction (EDI using XML).
Use of international terminology and coding (ISO, etc.) as much as possible.
The XML documents are modular and human - readable (well structured and with understandable tag names), not only machine - readable (thus with large use of list of predefined values and few spaces for natural language and its ambiguity).
Use of standard tools/languages of W3C to manipulate and validate the documents, based on XML Schema, X-Path, etc. Specific document templates are built for different business to reduce uncertainty and to make more constraining the automatic validation based on XML Schema