You are correct. We were the primary author so we did not have to buy this particular one. We do buy other ISO standards. Sorry for the error.
Sylvia Webb -----Original Message----- From: Francis Upton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 11:51 AM To: Sylvia Webb Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EDI-L] DISA and X12 standards formats It may be publicly available, but ISO standards are in general not free. They are copyrighted and must be purchased from ISO or a member body organization (like ANSI) that sells standards. ANSI will sell ISO/TS 20625 for USD 119 (ISO sells it for CHF 150) ISO supports itself through the sales of standards. Sylvia Webb wrote: > There is a draft ISO standard for converting X12/EDIFACT to XML. It is > ISO/TS 20625 "Rules for generation of XML schema files on the basis of > EDI(FACT) implementation guidelines". It is free and publicly available. > > Sylvia Webb > > ________________________________ > > From: Tom Brandt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [EDI-L] DISA and X12 standards formats > > > It was the only one I could find. I didn't know that there was 1.0 > version out. > > You ask an excellent question about the 868. I don't know of anyone > using it, nor do I know of an EDI package that can process it, > althought there may be some. So group, does anyone know of anyone > using the 868, or any EDI package that can process it? > > At 02:00 PM 10/26/2004, Francis Upton wrote: > > >Actually, this link you provide below is for a very old version of > >gXML > >(0.7) which is not really used much (as far as I know) and very > >different in structure and style than the current version. > > > >The current version of gXML is 1.0 and there is no publicly available > >specification I have been able to find. > > > >Also, I'm curious why there is little discussion about the EDI 868 > >transaction being using to represent EDI transactions. This is a > >standard and would seem the most natural form to represent these. It > >is surprising that the DISA does not provide their specifications in > >this > form. > > > >There is a similar issue with EDIFACT and the DIRDEF message form > >which is their means of representing their specifications. The > >EDIFACT formats are all publicly available in text/html format, but > >not in DIRDEF format. Apparently, they contracted a company to > >provide tools to convert the text specifications to DIRDEF, and some > >of the DIRDEF specifications are available for free on their site, > >but there is no free availability of EDIFACT DIRDEF specifications > >for all versions, and I can't find where and how to get the tool > >(though writing one myself would not seem that difficult). > > > >Francis > > > >Tom Brandt wrote: > > > > > At 12:18 PM 10/26/2004, Earl Wertheimer wrote: > > > >I don't know the format of the X12 table data, but if we can > > > >agree on > > > an XML > > > >format, I would be happy to convert the more than 250 outgoing > > > mappings we > > > >have. > > > > > > See the specs for gXML, which spell out how to publish EDI specs > > > as XML docs. > > > http://xml.coverpages.org/gxml.html > > > > > > -- > > > Tom Brandt > > > Northtech Systems, Inc. > > > 130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220 > > > Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343 > > > http://www.northtech.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > . > > > Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: > > > <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> > > > Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L > > > > > > > > > > > > *Yahoo! 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