基于XML的企业工作流系统互操作的实现

企业工作流系统具有广泛的应用价值，但目前其应用主要局限于企业内部。随着Internet和电子商务的发展，企业工作流系统能够协同操作是工作流系统的发展趋势。XML作为可扩展性标准语言，为可重用文档提供了标准的描述机制，必然成为各种应用系统交换数据的标准．并且它也适于描述企业业务流程。文中提出利用XML描述工作流信息，使不同的企业工作流系统通过解析XML来共享工作流信息，从而实现工作流系统的互操作。

Realization of Collaboration in Workflow System Based on XML

Workflow systems are highly valuable, but the applications are limited in an enterprise. With the development of Internet and electronic business, workflow systems must collaborate with each other. As a standard extensible markup language, XML provides a standard method for documents that can be used in different software, and it is fit for describing the enterprise business procedure, so it must become the standard for exchanging data between different applications.The paper provides a way of describing workflow systems using XML, so different workflow systems can collaborate each other by parsing the elements in the XML file which represents the shared workflow.