hi,
how do we generate XML documents from Baan EDI?
we are with Baan iv c4, with SP 12.
we want to generate XML documents from baan EDI and send it to B2B Server of BaaN.
any help in this regard would be appreciated.
thanks
s.arun prasath

I'm not sure about this. I only know how it was done in Baan E-Collaboration.

For Baan E-Collaboration a special EDI setup was present in Baan. This resulted in a 'pseudo' XML file that was sent to Baan E-Collaboration. On the E-Collaboration server a NT service was running that picked up XML messages from a certain directory. If this service found a message coming from Baan this message was first transformed in a real XML message (a start and end tag was added and all " were removed from the message (because in the setup the tags are defined as fixed strings they contain quotes in the messages).

I attached a part of the setup for a purchase order as an example.


Did Baan not deliver any EDI setups for this purpose???

Youp

Hi,
I guess you must be using an EDI translator also. And EDI transalator can generate XML from ASCII and may be post also. Atleast my EDI translator can do that.

Arvind

hi,
thanks for ur replies.
we have succeeded in generating XML messages through EDI.
Along with iBaan B2B server, we get the edi setup. There is a file called defaults.edi that comes.
when we import this in EDI module, we get all the default XML tags that are stored in tables.
Then when we run the session, generate EDI messages, we are able to generate pseudo XML messages. (coz, all tags are separated by a delimiter).
This we are able to send to iBaaN B2B server.

thanks again
s.arun prasath

By default BaaN IV C4 supports generating ASCII files. If you want to convert ASCII format into XML , there are plenty of ASCII TO XML Coverter utilities available. Also some of the EDI Translators converts the ASCII into XML for the data transmission.

Originally posted by arunprasath
hi,
how do we generate XML documents from Baan EDI?
we are with Baan iv c4, with SP 12.
we want to generate XML documents from baan EDI and send it to B2B Server of BaaN.
any help in this regard would be appreciated.
thanks
s.arun prasath

Its a little tricky I have done this with Baan Open world Broker
What I did was to write the EDI message as a text file
from Baan iv c4 to a specific directory. Then I let the
Baan Open World broker read the EDI text file from that directory
and converted the text file into tables. I created the XML documents with SPY. In Baan Open World Broker using its script I importer the XML document and converted that XML object to COM object. Then I used DOM to write the values from the
tables into the COM object (XML object). Then I saved the XML object to a directory that was later picked up by MQSeries. This process then ran all automatically using message featured and objects in BAAN Open world Broker.