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Re: X12 sees the writing on the wall.
William You wrote:
> I must disagree, Bill, with your bit about "parsing is the easy
> part--even in EDI!" Parsing EDI is a lot more complicated (than parsing
> XML), what with all the travails involved with separators and
> terminators, elements, composites, segments and loops.
and
> On the other hand, XML is so no-nonsense strict
> about structure and format that this loosey-goosiness never arises.
XML is not that easy to parse:
- Strict about structures -> Groups in XML comes in strange flavours
sometimes
ALL group -> children may come in any order - group can not be repetitive
CHOICE group -> only just one child may occur - may be repetitive
- Entities
- xml:spaces -> DEFAULT -> ignore ignore lead-in and ending white spaces
-> PRESERVE -> preserve all white spaces
- Comments everywere
and so on ( a lot of small details)
Regards
Kurt Svensson (who wrote our EDIFACT, X12, XML parsers)
Inobiz AB
www.inobiz.com
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