Convert XML or Json to EDIFACT

Question

So i have started to work with conversion from XML or JSON to Edifact (EDI), and i have no idea where to begin. i have started to read a bit about edifact and i thought id post a question here to maybe get some pointers of what is good to know and also maybe of some links and places to start learning about conversion to edifact.

So i have started with trying to convert XML to Edifact and soon realized that i would need an XSD for that. And i thought If Edifact is a pretty tightly kept standard, is there any already existing XSDs for Edifact 911 ORDERS and also DESADV. I couldn't find any.

Any information would be helpful at this moment. Thank you!

Answer 1

I don't think you'll find any schemas that aren't proprietary to a translation package. Any schema would probably be a generic representation of the standard, and not specific to your implementation, or your trading partner's guidelines.

Your XML / JSON is proprietary to you (or your ERP). So you'll need to take the XML tags or JSON objects and convert them into the segment/element enveloped structure of the EDIFACT document. BOTS might be able to help you here, as it is open source (Python, I think). Outside of that, there are really great drag/drop mapping tools out there that will allow you to solve your problem.