The reason you can't find a good Mercator book these days is that it's on it's way to becoming a dead product. You can't buy it, they won't well it, there are no parts available, and you can't afford to hire one of the three or so mechanics left who understand it. The sad part is that they seem to have self-immolated themselves.
As for the roses, didn't you look outside? I left them on the stoop this morning ... perhaps your wife thought that they were for her? Or from you? We know better. William J. Kammerer wrote: >Brian, are we talking past one another? Richard Hug *is* using a >translator - and it presumably takes care of "all the rest of the good >stuff you need, such as compliance checking and trading partner >maintenance." I just assumed he was saying he relies on Perl to do the >heavy lifting of mapping. I love that idea. > >And I really wasn't dissing Mercator. But walk into a book store >sometime: you'll see Perl this and Perl that. Perl is ubiquitous - >maybe even more so than XSD and XSLT. But not one book about Mercator >and type trees. I'm supposing that with all other things being equal, >I'd rather have Perl code dumped on my desk than some random vendor's >map. > >Now, speaking of roses: you forgot me this time. Did I say something >wrong? I loved the arrangement you sent me last year. > >William J. Kammerer >Novannet >Columbus, OH 43221-3859 . USA >+1 (614) 487-0320 > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Brian Lehrhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "William J. Kammerer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "EDI-L Mailing List" ><[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, 14 February, 2005 12:25 PM >Subject: Re: [EDI-L] <sales>looking for mapping tools > > >Yea, sure, great. Now all you need to do is find a partner that can take >the XML instead of X12. Call Wal-Mart, tell them that you're changing. >See how far you get, and report back to us. > >If you want to ditch that expensive translator for a free (or lower >cost) one ... fine. You can do all of your translation in c# or perl. >Are you going to build all the rest of the good stuff you need, such as >compliance checking and trading partner maintenance? It is still >infinitely cheaper to buy than build. Unless you decided to grow the >roses yourself :) > > >===== >Brian Lehrhoff >EDI Consultant >201-913-4506 > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "William J. Kammerer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "EDI-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, 14 February, 2005 11:08 AM >Subject: Re: [EDI-L] <sales>looking for mapping tools > > > >Hush!! If folks get an inexpensive EDI translator and learn Perl to do >their mapping, then that puts the kibosh on at least one of many good >reasons to move to XML. They'll find out that they don't have to put up >with the agony of "point-'n'-click" mapping, Mercator "type" trees, >Gumtran macros or bad or non-existent technical support to get useful >things done. > >William J. Kammerer >Novannet >Columbus, OH 43221-3859 . USA >+1 (614) 487-0320 > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Richard Hug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Kevin Galioto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, 13 February, 2005 09:30 PM >Subject: Re: [EDI-L] <sales>looking for mapping tools > > > > >Dave, > >About a year ago I switched to the scripting language PERL. It was >easy to learn and seems to handle all my client's mapping needs. I >use Trading Partner PC from Emanio, as the translator, a low priced >translator with plenty of installs. (www.emanio.com). > >Oh yes, the price of Perl is free, it is part of the open source >movement. (www.perl.org). EDI syntex is controled by Trading Partner >PC, and Perl writes just about any file that exists. > >Regards, > >Richard Hug >New Tampa Consulting > > > > >. >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 > > > > > > > > > > -- %%%%%%%%%%%%% cut here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Brian Lehrhoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Messaging Consultant 201-913-4506 %%%%%%%%%%%%% cut here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% . 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/
