August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
15h 3m
English
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Describing the File Formats
With EDI formats we reach the peak of complexity in describing file formats. In addition to describing the grammar of segments and transaction sets, we also need information about various delimiters and values for things like sender and receiver IDs.
It should come as no surprise that our X12 file description document has three major sections, each represented by an Element that is an immediate child of the root Element.
PhysicalCharacteristics: the X12 interchange characteristics, required only when converting to X12
XMLOutputCharacteristics: the XML output characteristics, required only when converting to XML
Grammar: the transaction set grammar