Gerard, I have concerns. 1. Your DTD is completely US-centric, that is, all the tag names are locked into US English. How will you have multilingual support within your documents? 2. There are hundreds of EDI document types. How long will it take Netfish to create DTDs to enable translation to as many documents as XEDI [http://www.xedi.org] now supports? For a subset of the list see http://www.xmls.com/products/xedi/xedidocs.html. 3. How will you support multiple versions of X12 (3040, 4010, etc.) and EDIFACT (96a, 97a, etc.)? How long till that support arrives? 4. You representation of EDI in XML seems arbitary. What are the underlying rule(s) you are applying to generate your DTDs? For instance, why is there no underscore between "sale" and "deferred" in the element named "ITD_Terms_of_SaleDeferred_Terms_of_Sale"? 5. Why is there no looping structure? 6. How do I reuse elements across document types? For instance, the N1 element is defined in each DTD. 7. How does your DTD handle multiple ISA, GS and ST loops? Where does all the ISA and GS data go? Jeffrey Ricker CTO XMLSolutions -----Original Message----- From: spinksedi.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 8:59 AM To: XML-EDI Group Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DTD's All- Due to the number of responses inquiring about the Netfish DTD's, I have enclosed three DTD's for your review. Our DTD's will be published on the Netfish website at www.netfish.com in the coming weeks. Again, these DTD's were developed for the Netfish EDI Service solution which transforms XML-EDI data, based upon formatted documents using these DTD's, to X12 and EDIFACT data. Our transformers also behave in the reverse manner as well, transforming Inbound X12 flat file system data to XML-EDI representation of the data and loaded into the Netfish XDI Server software and eventually imported into the backend ERP system such as SAP, BAAN, or Oracle. The Netfish Technologies XDI Server is a 100% XML Solution with built in EDI flat file system adapters. These DTD's are also used at map time, where the Netfish XDI Mapper can be used to map data to adhere to Trading Partners' EDI Guidelines. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Regards- Gerard EDI Development Director at Netfish Technologies 408-350-9657 www.netfish.com ===== Gerard Spinks B2B Practice Director Spinks Engineering, Inc. www.spinksedi.com 925-706-7694 West Coast Office 212-658-9309 East Coast Office "Enabling Business to Business Commerce" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------ Homepage = http://www.XMLedi-Group.org Unsubscribe = send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm
