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RE: Gentran:Server for Unix Question
Every one of "the millions of people" who know this XML "trivia" (as opposed
to EDIFACT "arcana") have learnt it in the same way that the "few hundred
folks" who know EDIFACT did. They learnt it from experience, from
assistance or from tutorials/lessons/documentation.
Monkeys may be smarter in Columbus but XML is not so ubiquitous around here
that everyone knows how to develop in it. I did not know the escape
sequences in XML but then I don't need to. And millions of people don't
know EDIFACT escape characters. Because they don't need to.
They are both easy to implement when you know how.
Andres.
-----Original Message-----
From: William J. Kammerer [mailto:
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:46 PM
To: EDI-L Mailing List
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Gentran:Server for Unix Question
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" <
To: <
Sent: Monday, 24 January, 2005 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Gentran:Server for Unix Question
Quoted text is from < by
>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
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