FW: Application-level trading partner integration

[Bill Chessman]

Jim Divoky wrote: "...The only advantage it offers currently over traditional EDI methods is in the fact it can ease visual presentation..."   The word "can" is particularly important here.  XML syntax makes absolutely no guarantees of readability.  A straight conversion of EDI to XML could (another important word) use the element IDs as the tags, in which case we might see something like   <BGN><353>02</353><127>5551212</127><373>19990101</373><127>BR549</127><768>ZZ</768></BGN>   Granted, as he also pointed out, there are few if any agreed-upon standards so there's no saying the above is better or worse or recommended or likely to be used (probably not as shown, but I wanted to provide an extreme case).  At least it's well-formed.  8-)   Best regards,   Bill Chessman, SMTS Peregrine Systems, Inc. E-markets Group