Manutosh,
All of the X12 transaction standards specified in all of the X12N
Implementation Guides adopted for HIPAA specify both
-- data content [ISO/OSI Model layer 7: Application], and
-- data format [ISO/OSI Model layer 6: Presentation].
The specified transactions (i.e., "on the wire") data format is not
XML! How the transactions are formatted on each sending and
receiving system (i.e., not "on the wire") is outside the scope of X12
and HIPAA Electronic Transactions.
By the way, the X12N Implementation Guides also specify data
conditions: "required", "situational", and "not used".
Hope this helps nail things down for you.
Dave Feinberg
Rensis Corporation [A Consulting Company]
206-617-1717
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Manutosh Mathur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 8:59 AM
Subject: RE: XML version of 278
To me, a standard(like X12) and a format (text/word/XML) are two
different things. (Remember, there is nothing like *.edi file). A
standard can be represented in multiple ways (like Rishel pointed out
earlier and i agree with her - a standard can have multiple schemas).
So, X12 format can have schemas in different forms (xml being just one
of them) but the resulting file(which is the file on the wire) can be
the same. I know that this resulting file follows the X12 standard.
What i am not sure of is whether it has to be in a particular format.
(my guess is that as long as the standard is X12 the format should not
matter) Since we are talking about the format on wire(not the
standard - we all know that the standard is X12), i would appreciate
an opinion from somebody on the listserv working directly with
generating EDI files using a translator and sending it to their
trading partners.
Manutosh
(518) 257-4482
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