Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

XML Output Characteristics

Characteristics governing the output XML documents are described in the XMLOutputCharacteristics Element. This Element is used only when converting from X12 interchanges to XML.

Table 9.4 shows the child Element of the XMLOutputCharacteristics Element. This time we have only a single child Element; as with the other file formats the schema reference is optional.

Table 9.3. Child Elements of the PhysicalCharacteristics Element

Child Element	Child Element	Attribute	Schema Data Type	Description	Allowable Values, Restrictions, or Comments
Delimiters	SegmentTerminator	value	union of a single token character and hexBinary	The segment terminator character expressed as a literal character or a hexadecimal value	A single nonwhitespace character ...