Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

Trading Partner/Application Information

In Chapter 9 we identified a need for a data store for EDI control information. In the current version of the XMLToX12 utility the data store was used only for generating sequential control numbers for interchanges and functional groups. This XML document could be expanded to include audit entries for interchanges and groups that are transmitted. It could also be used for tracking Functional Acknowledgments received. Because it would be an XML document, creating formatted reports, displaying it as a Web page, or developing simple queries against it would be fairly easy using standard tools.

In addition, we can observe that while the grammars of our various file formats are similar, there are some fundamental ...