You may want to look at what HL7 is doing with XML for
patient records. The URL is:
http://www.hl7.org/special/Committees/sgml/sgml.htm
Debbi Walsh from XML Solutions will be giving a presentation
this evening on "Accessing Your Legacy for E-commerce" at the Washington
Area SGML/XML Users Group. The meeting is open to all interested
individuals. If you are willing to brave the cold and are located
within commuting distance of Washington, D.C. you are welcome to
attend. The meeting is held near Dupont Circle. Information about
the meeting is locating at http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug.
Betty
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Chris Thompson wrote:
> Thanks - I mentioned that I knew of XML Solutions, and we are having discussions
>with them. But their solution starts at $30,000 which will run into millions of
>dollars if we roll their solution out to all of our customers. As well, it appears
>to me that there is no standard XML representation for X12, so my customers will be
>stuck in an outdated structure once a standard is approved.
>
> We are interested only in the health insurance X12 components, so if there is
>anything like a standard DTD published, we can write the mapping ourselves for about
>the same money as one license from XML Solutions, and preserve our customers
>investment.....
>
> Chris Thompson
> Executive Vice President
> Recognition Research, Inc.
> 1750 Kraft Dr. Suite 2000
> Blacksburg, VA 24060
> 540.961.6500
> 540.961.3568/fax
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.rrinc.com
> B382000331
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eck, Jeffery (GEIS) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 8:27 AM
> To: Chris Thompson; 'Varshney, Arun'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: XML/EDI request:Please Reply
>
> Chris,
>
> You may want to look into the XEDI 'approach' which has been developed by
> XML Solutions in McLean, VA. The XEDI approach takes the ANSI & EDIFACT
> messages from the various versions and converted them into XML messages for
> each EDI message. They are at www.xmls.com <http://www.xmls.com>
>
> Thanks
> Jeff Eck
> <http://www.is.ge.com/html/announce/eDemoProcess.ppt>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 8:55 PM
> To: 'Varshney, Arun'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: XML/EDI request:Please Reply
>
> My understanding is that there are a couple of data mapping vendors with
> products that map X12 to XML, but that there is no published, or standard,
> DTD for the representation of X12 in XML. My further (mis?) understanding
> is that the ANSI X12 group is working on this, and so far the representation
> presented by XML Solutions is currently most favored by the community.
>
> This is what I have gathered from poking around on the web - anybody with
> direct experience *please* chime in on this. We have an earnest need to
> convert files between XML and X12 as well.
>
> Chris Thompson
> Executive Vice President
> Recognition Research, Inc.
> 1750 Kraft Dr. Suite 2000
> Blacksburg, VA 24060
> 540.961.6500
> 540.961.3568/fax
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.rrinc.com
> B382000331
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Varshney, Arun [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 10:21 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: XML/EDI request:Please Reply
>
> Could someone point me to URL where I can find XML DTD's for the EDI X12
> doc, if there is any ?
>
> Appreciate your help.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Betty L. Harvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 5:29 AM
> To: shanti pais
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: XML/EDI request:Please Reply
>
>
>
> Shanti:
>
> The solution is to escape the <> characters using UNICODE.
> The message would look like:
>
> <message>This is my <message>. </message>
>
> Reading between the lines from your message it looks like
> you will be receiving your possibly from unknown sources. If this
> is the case it may be impossible to get the creators of the information
> to use the UNICODE encoding rather than the keyboard <> characters.
> You may need to create a preprocess to convert the 'special characters'
> to the UNICODE encoding. You will experience problems with #PCDATA
> (parsed character data) with other characters, i.e., &, AUML, OUML, etc.
>
> Betty
>
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>
>
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, shanti pais wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear friends,
> > I am working on a project XML/EDI. I have faced one problem here while
>
> > parsing an XML document.
> > My XML document is an e-mail document which contains
> > <email>
> > <to></to>
> > <from></from>
> > <message></message>
> > </email>
> >
> > I have defined DTD as <!ELEMENT message (#PCDATA)> which contains
> only
> > the character string.
> >
> > But the problem is inside the message the user may use
> > the tag <message>"information"</message> since he is unaware of the DTD
> > structure. But parser will consider it as a subelement and may give
> > declaration error, but actually it is nothing but PCDATA.
> >
> > Anybody knows the solution for this problem please reply me soon.
> >
> > Thaking you
> > Shanti Maria Pais
> >
> >
> >
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