It doesn't make sense to buy just an XML or just an EDI solution any more.
One should buy somthing that does both. It isn't just EDI to XML
conversion, its any to any.
There are applications and databases being deployed which use XML as the
interface format the same way SAP uses IDocs. If your trading community is
using EDI and your application API expects or sends XML, you need to
convert.
Web hosted applications seem particularly fond of XML. It is a structured
format that can be processed, and is easy to exchange using http post and
get so Internet developers take to it more readily than EDI. Http protocols
are firewall friendly, so are a path of least resistance as well.
Tim Cronin
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From: Ken Steel
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 4/19/01 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: "Biztalk...I choose you"
Alnoor DRAMSI wrote:
> XEDI is a Java connector translating EDI (EDIFACT, X12, ...) to XML
and XML
> to EDI.
It appears this product would be used to go from EDI to XML at the
sending end and from XML to EDI at the receiving end.
What benefit have you found in doing this? It might appear to the
uninitiated as a rather useless extra step. Why not transmit the
information in EDI syntax instead of going to all the additional
complexity and expense of translating to/untranslating from XML syntax?
What happens when your trading partner expects the communication in EDI
syntax and you send it in XML syntax? Does that force all your trading
partners into this additional complexity and expense also? Where is the
business benefit in doing this?
Ken
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