Most traditional EDI tools are able to generate source and destination data definitions automatically through stored standard formats (X12, EDIFACT, etc.,) from source or destination data files or from application interfaces like the SAP IDOC API. Those with XML capability can read either a DTD or schema. This leaves only the mapping. I'm still trying to understand what is so special about the X12 to XML1 to XML2 approach.
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From: Leo Mendelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: OLIVOLA Peter
Subject: Re[4]: Using XSLT..
Hello!
OP> What is the advantage of going through multiple mapping steps? That's what
OP> you're doing to achieve a result that is handled by traditional EDI tools in
OP> a single process.
You don't really go trough multiple mapping steps.
Also in better traditional EDI tools you must define the structure of
your source data the structure of your target data and a mapping for
this.
And this is the same you have to do for the XML/XSLT based converter.
And at traditional EDI tools there are also steps for parse the input
data, then convert/sort them to a target structure and then write the
data out.
And this is also the same for the XML/XSLT based tools.
The steps for read EDI data to XML then convert to target XML and then
from target XML to EDI is just the way how it work internally. But you not really
has to create all this XML files. They can be hold at DOM memory
structure and you see only one step and the finish result files.
But the biggest advantage of the XML/XSLT based tools are, that you
only have to learn one technology and can then make conversions for
different software tools. Also you can use the same technology
for work on totally other areas for example like CRM,..
And there are a lot of people you can ask if you have any
problems because of the big spread of this technologies!
I think this is also the biggest advantage of XML globally. The number
of solutions and developments at this area!
Leo
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