In message <1378835140.62643.yahoomail...@web161501.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, Timothy Cronin <timcroni...@yahoo.com> writes >Has anyone ever done a comparison of X12 and EDIFACT dictionaries for >similarity of size and type of like elements? We are talking about a >normalized internal message and if we base it on the EDIFACT data >dictionary how comfortable should we be that it would also handle X12 >element attributes.
There are a couple of data attributes in X12 which are not found in EDIFACT; you can have numeric fields with an implicit decimal point, and variable length fields can be specified with a minimum length. The codelists used are not the same if you were thinking of having ID codes in your internal message. I do not have enough detailed knowledge of X12 to comment on field length incompatibilities. Regards Chris -- Chris Johnson mobile:+44 (0)7785 302122 Fax: +44 (0)870 0519 818 EDI website http://www.edimatrix.co.uk EDIMatrix Ltd work: 0844 414 6386 or +44 20 8778 1402 Registered in UK no. 2777624 Reg.Office: 34 Sydenham Rd, London SE26 5QF ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: edi-l-dig...@yahoogroups.com edi-l-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: edi-l-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
