The GAO has examined the use of XML in the U.S. federal government and found present XML initiatives lacking focus and depth. The report itself has some shortcomings -- it focuses unduly on transactions (and scarcely on CM) and federal-wide vocabularies -- but we still think it's a useful clarion call for a higher XML profile in the federal arena. Now if only there was a similarly detailed review of federal CMS efforts. We know of a plethora of federal agencies heading out one-by-one into the marketplace to procure CMS solutions, in some cases like so many little lambs headed to the slaughterhouse...
Read the GAO XML Report (pdf)