Brian,
For those of us who write in Assembler and use COBOL to document
what we wrote, I understand you.
I could show you where XML is really used to expose the lack of
knowledge or skills of people involved. Like my 3/4 page 855 needing to
be translated into a 35 page Purchase Order Acknowledgement in XML. I
suspect this needs to be done to support a middle man supporting "rip
and run" EDI.
Dan Mehlhorn
System Programmer/EDI Administrator
Crescent Electric Supply Co.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Lehrhoff
The real reason that XML is used is for readability...to the layperson.
The rest of us learned how to read X12
at an early age. And the first thing we usually do is rip the data
elements out and throw away the rest - either
as a translation step or a database load. You don't see the XML tags in
Oracle, do you? Compared to legacy
flat files and idocs, XML is a kinder, gentler
<underline>normalized</end of underline> format.
Daniel L. Mehlhorn wrote:
> Group,
>
>
>
> A factor of 10 is conservative. I really don't have the
> words to express the bloat in document size when a 3rd party
> "translates" documents into XML EDI for companies. It is a horror
show.
>
>
>
> Dan Mehlhorn
>
> System Programmer/EDI Administrator
>
> Crescent Electric Supply Co.
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