An XML model for electronic services

Electronic Government

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-55

  Vassilakis, Costas ^a   Lepouras, George ^a   Halatsis, Constantin ^a   Lobo, Tomas Pariente ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Indra Research and Development Institute

Author keywords

e government; electronic service; XML model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969449560     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2005.006647     Document Type: Article

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33. Seven electronic services were analysed to obtain the listed results. Two of them were simple, one – form services with few fields, three services were of medium complexity (one-two pages with 40-60 fields) and two services were highly complex including more than 300 fields spread along 3-4 pages.