August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
15h 3m
English
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Converter Base Class
Overview
The Converter class is the base class from which the source and target converters are derived. The bullets below summarize the primary attributes and methods.
Attributes:
DOM Document File Description Document
DOM Element Grammar Element
String Root Element Name
Methods:
Constructor
loadFileDescriptionDocument
Methods
Constructor
The base class Converter constructor performs only some very basic setup.
Logic for the Converter Constructor Method
Arguments:
None
Set up implementation dependent environment for loading and
parsing the File Description Document
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loadFileDescriptionDocument
This operation is coded as a separate function since the EDI converter may need to load more than one file description document as ...