Exporting Guideline and Schema Files

You can configure TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream to convert XML documents into EDI documents and EDI documents into XML documents. Inbound EDI documents can be converted to XML for processing by your backend processes. Your backend processes can also pass outbound XML data to TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream for conversion to EDI data prior to sending the data to your trading partners.

When TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream converts a document into XML, any application that uses the XML document, for example, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, has to know the structure of the XML to expect. Therefore, after you complete customizing a guideline, you also have to generate an XSD schema file, which reflects the structure of the guideline.

While the guideline is open in EDISIM, you can export the XSD for the guideline by clicking File > Export > Export Current Guideline > To Schema, and you can also export the guideline by clicking File > Export > Export Current Guideline/Export Multiple Guidelines > To SEF.

With EDISIM, you can export the guideline in several different formats:

• Multiple guidelines can be exported to the SEF format.
• A specific guideline can be exported to any location into SEF, or XSD Schema formats.

The exported XSD is configured into TIBCO BusinessConnect along with the guideline

file. The XSD can be retrieved from the TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition Configuration Store in TIBCO Business Studio. Then, you can use the XSD in TIBCO Business Studio when assembling your processes for mapping and routing of the XML messages to and from TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition.