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Article #1007Re: Free EDI
From: Christopher Horn
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 00:00
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Paul Rubin wrote: > Yes, HL gives container within container info with varying recursion > depth. However (although I'm getting email to the contrary now), > as far as I could tell nobody really used it that way except possibly > for the one company that proposed it. And -nobody- I talked to seemed > to understand what it was really supposed to do. The only way I could > see to implement something that conformed to the letter of the standard > came out looking not too useful, but I did it that way anyway, since > no other reasonable choice was apparent. It wasn't so difficult, just > ugly. But I have the impression (real EDI users correct me if I'm > wrong) that it just isn't important to handle the full generality > in practice. While not explicitely stated, for some reason I was under the impression that it was limited to a depth of 5. Truck, pallet, tote or case, container or unit item, unit item. But then, I only looked at the spec passingly so probably misunderstood it. > I continue to believe relational databases aren't a natural way to > represent what goes into EDI documents. Agreed. Cheers, Chris
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,b5b6fb3cf8b99ab3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1145cb,b5b6fb3cf8b99ab3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1145cb,public X-Google-Thread: fc5c9,b5b6fb3cf8b99ab3 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc5c9,public X-Google-Thread: 10963c,b5b6fb3cf8b99ab3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10963c,public X-Google-Thread: 1023f3,b5b6fb3cf8b99ab3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1023f3,public X-Google-Thread: fbe20,b5b6fb3cf8b99ab3 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbe20,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,b5b6fb3cf8b99ab3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Christopher Horn <chorn@warwick.net> Subject: Re: Free EDI Date: 1997/02/23 Message-ID: <3310E280.6914067@warwick.net> X-Deja-AN: 221013800 References: <E5v7qE.D85@world.std.com> <phrE5x9uD.2yD@netcom.com> <E5yrEv.4o2@bigbird.telly.org> <E5z5C3.JL1@world.std.com> <phrE5zB8v.DJy@netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Warwick Online Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,biz.comp.accounting,bit.listserv.edi-l,tnn.protocols.edi,comp.protocols.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.databases,sci.crypt X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586)