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Converting X12 EDI to XML. (EDI and XML).

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-DEC-02 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
An economical model

The investment in traditional ANSI EDI is significant, involving established business and technical processes that have proven value and are integrated in everyday production across a spectrum of industries and organizations.

The limitations to this existing technology are that it is expensive to implement, generally limited in scope, somewhat behind the times, and the realm of only a small number of technicians, owing to the dense nature of the data. Information in an ANSI X12 EDI file is rich but indirect. To "read" an EDI file of this kind requires an understanding of the particular X12 standards.

This metadata consists of published and predefined values to which trading partners adhere. The business logic and rules are embedded in the data itself. Commercially available software both maps to this format and deconstructs information according to the semantics and syntax of the X12 Standards for Electronic Data Interchange (see sidebar: What Is ANSI EDI?)....

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