I thought the whole value in XML for EDI was the deployment of a schema/dtd 
to which each client would adhere.  Are you saying the clients expect you to 
do the translation from their inhouse format to your XML schema/dtd for them? 
 Just curious.




On Wednesday 01 August 2001 12:44 pm, you wrote:
> Hi Allen,
>
> XSLT is only useful if you are transforming from an XML format. You are
> going to have to use another mechanism to transform from non-XML data
> sources. Something like DataJunction should do the trick.
>
> Regards
> John Maughan
> Cape Clear Software
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kuhn, Allen [mailto:Akuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 August 2001 17:30
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] xslt and edi question
>
>
> I am a software developer working for a business to business exchange.
> We are working on integrating our trading partners to the exchange using
> Commerce One's xCBL XML. To do this we also need to convert data from
> the format used by our trading partners (OAG, EDI, flat files, etc).
>
> XSLT appears to be a good solution for this challenge. A good portion of
> my work will include converting EDI documents to xCBL. I have also seen
> mappings of EDI formats to xCBL and OAG. I also currently have to
> translate a flat file (with delimiters) to xCBL. I realize I have more
> work going from non-XML data fields, however I'm assuming this can be
> done.
>
> Is my assumption correct, that non-XML "data" documents can be converted
> using XSLT. Any clarification, or additional advice would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks for your time and consideration. I am also subscribing to
> Mulberry's user group, to post this there. Thanks again.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Allen Kuhn
> akuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:akuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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