Converting XML to EDIFACT

[Gustav Sinder]

Hi,

I'm looking at parsing/producing EDIFACT using Smooks in Apache ServiceMix. Parsing works really well and was a simple task to set up.

However, I can't wrap my head around how to produce EDIFACT from the very same XML format that the parser produces.

Found this old post on the topic but the solutions feels a bit cumbersome: http://milyn.996300.n3.nabble.com/Converting-from-XML-to-UNEDIFACT-in-Smooks-1-4-td5.html

The example Renat provided uses a number of classes found outside of Smooks, could there be a simpler way of doing it today?

Thanks

/Gustav

[Tom Fennelly]

Did you look at:

• UNEDIFACT mapping and binding definitions
• Examples of same

That stuff should let you go in both directions.

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[Gustav Sinder]

I checked those earlier but they only seem to cover parsing, not producing. There's method in the factory class called toUNEdifact() that takes an Interchange and seems to do what I want.
However, I can't grasp how I easily create the Interchange from the XML.

Since the parser can produce an XML adhering to a specific schema couldn't an Interchange be parsed from an XML using the very same schema?

Thanks

[Tom Fennelly]

I assume you read the section in the User Guide?

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[Gustav Sinder]

Yes, the information there was very sparse though.

It shows the toUNEdifact() method but not how to produce the interchange.

However, a guy provided a link on one of the issues at the smooks github repo: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12794416/smooks-edi-writer

I had to modify the manifest in milyn-smooks-all as documented here: http://milyn.996300.n3.nabble.com/Using-Smooks-1-5-1-in-an-OSGi-environment-td8671.html

Noticed this change was done in the latest POM on Github but I use 1.6.

This now works just fine in ServiceMix/Fuse!

Regards

Gustav

[Tom Fennelly]

I'm not sure what you mean. The examples at http://www.smooks.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Smooks_v1.5_Examples#UN.2FEDIFACT show both reading and writing. Anyway, it sounds like you have found a solution.

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[David Bacon]

I'm having the same issue here

I can see from the examples how to produce an edifact using the interchange

factory.toUNEdifact(interchange, ediOutStream);

but this interchange is created using 

UNEdifactInterchange interchange = factory.fromUNEdifact(ediInStream);

how do I create an interchange from an XML representation?

My goal is to be able to be able to transform from Edifact to XML which I'm able to do using the example but also to be able to transform from the same XML representation back to edifact

Thanks

David

[Gustav Sinder]

Hi,

You'll need to configure the smooks-config file according to the stackoverflow link in my previous mail.

That provides you with a hashmap that can be used to produce the interchange.

Regards

Gustav

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[farid ullah]

Can someone please attach full project of converting xml to edi. I have been trying to convert but no success so far. Don't know how to use smooks to do this.

[Michael Kassnel]

Hi,

I had similar issues with this a while ago so I posted some sample code on github: https://github.com/mescedia/xml-java-unedifact.
Hope this helps.

Regards Michael

[Tom Fennelly]

Thanks Michael.

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