document: Price modeling in standards for electronic product catalogs based on XML The fast spreading of electronic business-to-business procurement systems has led to the development of new standards for the exchange of electronic product catalogs ( e-catalogs ) . E-catalogs contain various information about products , essential is price information . Prices are used for buying decisions and following order transactions . While simple price models are often sufficient for the description of indirect goods ( e.g. office supplies ) , other goods and lines of business make higher demands . In this paper we examine what price information is contained in commercial XML standards for the exchange of product catalog data . For that purpose we bring the different implicit price models of the examined catalog standards together and provide a generalized model .
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