Hi, we also need EDI in our business and had the possibility to choose the EDI format for some of our suppliers. Some of them already had an EDIFACT implementation so I started looking about solutions. I also looked at the BOTS project but didn't like to have such a layer. The only advantage I saw in the BOTS project was that many EDIFACT directories are implemented. Finally I wrote a parser for the directory specification which stores its definitions into a sqlite db. With This db EDIFACT messages can be parsed, translated and be understood easily. For the others I chose the openTRANS [1] XML edi standard which looks quite usable.
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