Re: EDI Validation in .net

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From: Damien Sawyer (damien_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/19/05


Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:05:39 +1100

IMHO, Biztalk's EDI capabilities 'out of the box' are extremely limited. We
purchased a product from http://www.covast.com/ which bridges the short
comings. It's been in production with us for 6 months and everyone seems
pretty happy with it. I think it's expensive though.

DS

"RobotSpider" <robs@asrcorp.com> wrote in message
news:1111158284.143520.96510@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Biztalk 2004 can do the sort of validation you're looking for. Though
> it is definately a stand-alone product, the development environment is
> now integrated with Visual Studio .NET. That said, it may be overkill.
> I have yet to get past the tutorial successfully, and the installation
> and setup is a little daunting.
>
> I don't see why MapForce couldn't do this. If you're using schema
> files to do the mapping, as long as your schemas are well defined, I
> would expect it to validate as well as map the data. I might be wrong
> as I've only had the software about a week now, but what would be the
> point of mapping schema to schema?
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> ~Rob
>
> missiontrip2007@gmail.com wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a program or component for .net that will check
>> incoming x12 EDI documents to make sure they are valid (syntax).
> There
>> are a few mappers (Like Altova's Mapforce) that will generator c#
> code
>> to translate from EDI to XML (another thing I need to do). But there
>> is not validation on the EDI file first and if it has an issue, like
> a
>> user enters a * in a data field or something, it will not map
> properly.
>> Checked on the internet but did not see anything would like something
> I
>> can compile right into my software but if I have to go with a stand
>> alone that is fine also.
>>
>> thanks is advance!
>



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