> Don't laugh away the parsing problem as trivial. Perhaps upwards of 80% > of inter-company bulk data transfer is non-EDI (in the X12 and EDIFACT > sense). Most of it is flat files, comma-delimited records, and stuff > like that. None of that stuff is going to be turned into classic EDI, > even if X12 and EDIFACT got busy devising messages for each and every > possibility. >
This was actually the original request that sparked the germination of xmlLinguist. One of our clients had a whole bunch of "exported" files that they'd hired some programmer a long time ago to write. These little one-off applications were still used by the company to export data. Some of the data was CSV, some was fixed-width, etc. Our original intent was to get all of that disparate data into XML, making it much easier to deal with programmatically from there on. With the core technology of xmlLinguist in place, we found a highly useful tool for general application integration, as well as EDI. the same technology could be used to translate X12 documents into XML, and for many small businesses who are forced to use EDI to deal with large retail outlets, this has been very handy. For them, XML is very straight-forward and easy to deal with. X12 is not. With xmlLinguist in the mix, they can do everything they need to do with XML first, then the last step is to translate into X12, and they're done. It's basically another tool in the toolbelt, good for some situations, not so for others. Bryce K. Nielsen SysOnyx, Inc. (www.sysonyx.com) Lastest article: The origins of xmlDraft, the Smart XSD Editor http://www.sysonyx.com/xml-schema-editor . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
