Steve
At 23:35 22/06/01, Steve Bell wrote:
>We have a popular EDI translator and need to buy the add on module, which is
>quite expensive, to be able to code from application flat file to XML and
>vice versa. We do not want to interface with the Internet and have no need
>to send this data to a browser. This data will be transferred much like
>'regular' EDI data is. Is there another solution to the XML coding.
If you are willing to trade the convenience of GUI and product support for
a cheaper solution, you can achieve a lot with a combination of XSLT and
limited customer programming.
Over the last two years, we have built a dozen such converters. If you know
what you're doing, they're cheap to develop (I think the most complex one
took us a week). I explain how to build such a converter (with complete
source code) in Applied XML Solutions (Sams).
More recently I evaluated XML Convert from Unidex. It is sort of a middle
ground: it's a commercial product but it lacks a GUI and there's no
communication module either. Although it gives you some control on how to
convert flat to XML, you still need an XSLT style sheet to post-process the
XML document.
--ben
Applied XML Solutions at www.marchal.com
"concise, useful, and illuminating," Dr Dobbs Journal
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