Hello William,
Thanks for link to the EDIFACT specs. We've been looking for this thing for
a while now...
Do you know if there is something like this Spec is available on the web for
the X12 standard as well?
Thanks in advance,
Mac Kloberg
Liebherr America, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: William J. Kammerer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 5:33 PM
To: Michael Moore
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Valid content of EDI/XML tag.
Hmmm....sounds like you've got to do some mapping for XML/EDI -
specifically, XML wrappers for EDI. This is now all the rage, because -
the thinking goes - EDI *sucks* and if you pretty it up in XML wrappers
it all becomes intuitively obvious. What I never understood is, if EDI
sucks so bad, why these people base their XML documents on it so much so
that you have to know EDI in order understand the tag names?!!
RosettaNet even tried this with XML wrappers for X12, until they found
it didn't go anywhere.
I'll grant you that once you have an XML wrapped EDI file, a Visual
Basic or XSL script can "parse" it easily so you can map the "XML/EDI"
tags to do something useful. It appears this variant of XML/EDI uses
the element reference designator (e.g., "UNB02" denotes the 2nd element
of the UNB segment) as the tag name. So if you understand the
designators, you might be able to understand the data described by the
tags.
For EDIFACT wrapped up in XML, you can go to the UN/CEFACT EDIFACT
directories at http://www.unece.org/trade/untdid/Welcome.html, where any
of the EDIFACT directory versions can be downloaded or viewed in HTML.
By clicking on Part 4 on the left hand side, you can get the layouts of
the EDIFACT control segments (such as UNB and UNH). If you already have
FORESIGHT's EDISIM, then you can save some time because all of the
EDIFACT directories are built into our EDI standards viewer.
William J. Kammerer
FORESIGHT Corp.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 12:56 PM
Subject: Valid content of EDI/XML tag.
Hello,
I have been given a programming spec that makes reference to tags that
look like, <UNB03> (the sender ID) <UNB04> (sender ID qualifier) and
do on with all of the UNIFACT header segments. Correspondingly, <ISA06>
and <ISA05> etc. are defined for X12 EDI to XML mapping.
I have search for several hours on the net for the standards document
that defines these mappings. I can't find it. Can anybody give me a
link?
What I really want to know is if there is a standard DTD that
constrains the contents of these elements. I am hoping to find that it
can contain ONLY CharData like:
<UNB03>Acme Inc.</UN03> and not
<UNB03 min="1" max="15"><!-- I hope I never see a comment,CDSect, PI,
Reference, or another element in here
--><SENDERTYPE>ISP</SENDERTYPE>Acme Inc.</UNB03>
Any help is appreciated,
Thanks,
Mike
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