Chris, one nice thing about XML is that this business of the "quote" would never have arisen as an issue. Of course, in XML there are special characters like ampersand (&) and the left angle bracket (<) that can't appear in their literal form within data, but there are standard escape sequences such as "&" or "<".
You might say this is analogous to the EDIFACT situation where "?" is used to escape delimiters, but there is a BIG difference: everyone in the world who's made a web page with HTML is familiar with the concept. There are literally millions of people who know this XML trivia, but I would wager that only a few hundred folks in the entire world know the escaping arcana from ISO 9735 EDIFACT syntax. And perhaps only a few dozen know whether or how Sterling's Gentran:Server accommodates this EDIFACT standard technique. That's the beauty of XML: it's so ubiquitous, any monkey walking in off the street knows the syntax - or is expected to. With practically all syntax considerations out of the way - handled in a standard manner understood by every programmer - folks will finally be able to concentrate on their e-business applications. William J. Kammerer Novannet, LLC. Columbus, OH 43221-3859 . USA +1 (614) 487-0320 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 24 January, 2005 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Gentran:Server for Unix Question Quoted text is from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] >I am in the process of implementing the INVOIC transaction with a >customer who requires the Syntax level A which uses ' as the segment >terminator. Unfortunately, I have numerous ' in my product descriptions >and am looking for the right way to strip these characters from the >description in the IDOC prior to translation. I've looked through the >Sterling Commerce KB and the documentation and so far have not found >any solution. In EDIFACT messages the translator should insert an escape character (normally '?') before any instances of syntax characters in data, so their removal is not necessary in the same way as it is for X12. Regards Chris -- Chris Johnson mobile:+44 (0)7785 302122 EDIMatrix Ltd work: 0845 126 0680 or +44 20 8559 2454 fax: +44 (0)20 8559 2497 EDI website http://www.edimatrix.co.uk . 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! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
