[Gllug] Tax returns online? On Linux?

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:56:35PM +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 10:15 pm, Mark Preston wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > There is an excellent article written by David Chan which deals with
> > this subject in issue 32 (the latest one) of Linux User and Developer
> > magazine.
> 
> //snip//
> 
> ALL Government sites I've visited use proprietary XML (M$) to a greater or 
> lesser extent.  I have yet to see any Goverment site that works properly on 
> any browser and any operating system!

This is a separate issue. The XML that goes over the Government
Gateway is MS Biztalk SOAP documents. MS Biztalk XML is perfectly well
documented and -- unusually for an MS format -- can't really be
described as proprietary. The only issue is the GGSec hashing which is
a factor introduced by OeE, not by MS (see my other posting).

Rich.

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