Validation and XML Conversion

You can configure TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Container Edition - EDI Protocol powered by Instream® to perform EDI syntax checking of the X12 documents you exchange with your trading partners. This product is designed to be flexible and can work with any EDI standard based upon X12.

You can also configure TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Container Edition - 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 private processes.

Your private processes can also pass XML data to TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Container Edition - EDI Protocol powered by Instream® for conversion to EDI data prior to sending the data to your trading partners.

Outbound XML to EDI conversion is available for the X12 standard.

EDI guideline files contain the information required by the validation engine to perform its syntax checking. A guideline file is created for each EDI transaction set or message type exchanged with your trading partners. Guideline files can be customized to suit your business needs.

For more information, see Customizing a Guideline.