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DataDirect XML Converters™

Bi-directional, streaming conversion for EDI and Legacy Data to/from XML

DataDirect XML Converters™ are high-performance Java™ and .NET components that provide bi-directional, programmatic access to virtually any non-XML file including EDI, flat files, and other legacy formats. DataDirect XML Converters allow developers to seamlessly stream any non-XML data as XML to industry-leading XML processing components or to any application. They support StAX, SAX, XmlReader, XmlWriter, DOM and I/O streaming interfaces, and can be embedded directly for transformation purposes, or as part of a chain of programs including XSLT and XQuery, or even inside XML pipelines. DataDirect XML Converters maximize developer productivity and provide a fast, scalable solution for converting between EDI and other legacy formats and XML.

Improve Productivity – Easily Transform EDI and Flat Files to XML

Today’s Web services, Web sites, and data integration needs are based on XML. Enterprises are dealing with myriad legacy EDI and flat file types, often requiring intense manual coding to convert to XML. DataDirect XML Converters automatically transform thousands of EDI and Flat File formats to XML and back – with no development required – they maximize developer productivity and provide a fast, scalable solution.

Document Streaming for Performance and Scalability

DataDirect XML Converters allow the easy manipulation of large documents through a streaming architecture design. They leverage the SAX, StAX, XmlReader and XmlWriter streaming XML APIs.

Easily Embeddable

DataDirect XML Converters are easily embeddable into Java and .NET applications, or your XML processing component. They require no other product or application server, and have no server of their own.

Families of EDI and Flat File Types Supported

• X12
• HL7
• EDIFACT
• EANCOM
• IATA
• Standard Exchange Format (SEF)
• dBase, CSV, Tabbed Delimited, DIF, Sylk, JSON
• Custom formats

Supports both .NET 2.0 or higher and any Java-enabled platform that supports J2SE 1.4.x or higher.

XML Tools for DataDirect XML Converter Development

Supported formats are enabled out-of-the-box with no development and custom formats can be address with Stylus Studio, an award-winning XML IDE with advanced XQuery development support including integration with DataDirect XQuery. Stylus Studio allows for the creation of custom mappings to all of the other file formats that aren't supported out-of-the-box. Stylus Studio is available for Windows 2000 SP2, Windows XP or Windows Vista.

The DataDirect XML Converters are packaged separately based on one of the four types above, or in a bundle giving you access to all supported file types and Stylus Studio Enterprise Edition.