RE: EDIINT and the EDI XML movement ...

[Gunther Schadow <gunther@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's exactly what I meant: everyone is looking at XML and is planning
to use it. So is HL7, so is X12, so is EDIFACT (?), everyone may be
at a slightly different stage in the process (e.g. HL7 is almost
committed to using XML for its version 3 and is planning on a demo
for Spring 1999. But the bottomline for now is: noone is really done,
and if someone where done with the specs, the broad user base is still
not there. Give it some more time.

But anyway, the part that was removed from my original message was that
I don't believe XML presentation syntax puts a lot of new requirements
to EDIINT protocols. The only thing that I conceive necessary is to
introduce a parameter "syntax" for the MIME-EDI container so that the
message processor can select the appropriate parser:

Content-type: application/edi-hl7; syntax="xml"

<HL7MSG ...>
...
</HL7MSG>



or

Content-type: application/edi-hl7; syntax="traditional"

MSH|...|||||
BLA|||||
BLA|||||


This parameter "syntax" is already part of the current HL7 EDIINT
draft. At last, we might want to think about revising RFC 1767
(MIME-EDI).

regards
-Gunther

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From: "Egerter, Chuck" <chuck.egerter@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 22:06:01 -0500
> OBI has not yet released a version of their spec that uses XML.  The team is
> just in the beginning phases of discussing how and when to incorporate it.
> But... everyone is very optimistic about the benefits that we will gain
>
> Patrick - you may have more to add.
>
> > From:	clueder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:clueder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, November 25, 1998 4:04 PM
> > To:	gunther@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ietf-ediint@xxxxxxx;
> > John.Mani@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:	Re: EDIINT and the EDI XML movement ...
> > 
> > >XML EDI may be relevant in the future. However, currently it seems to
> > >be a moving target. As far as I know, neither X12 nor EDIFACT nor HL7
> > >have been "converted" significant amounts of their users to XML, ...
> > 
> > With one big exception: OBI (Open buying on the internet) use of XML for
> > X12 850 purchase order.
> >