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What's New in DataDirect XML Converters

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.  More information is available at www.xmlconverters.com.

Release Highlights

Here's a summary of what's new in Release 4.1:

• NCPDP and TRADACOMS Support — DataDirect XML Converters now supports the NCPDP and TRADACOMS EDI dialects. Current message type support for these dialects includes:
  • NCPDP — 8.0, 8.1, 9.0, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7
  • TRADACOMS — 93.1, including BIC (Book Industry Communication) extensions

  The current list of supported EDI standards includes:

  • ATIS
  • EANCOM
  • EDIFACT
  • Edig@s
  • HIPAA
  • HL7
  • IATA
  • NCPDP
  • TRADACOMS
  • X12


• .RENAME supported for SEF — The .RENAME[old name,new name] parameter, which can be used to rename most tags in the XML output file, has been enhanced in this release. Enhanced functionality is backwards-compatible with Release 4.0.


• following= parameter now used — In the TRADACOMS dialect, the default character used to separate segment names and segment content is the equal sign (=). You can now use the following= parameter to override the default character.

For releases prior to 4.1, visit http://www.xmlconverters.com/products/prior-releases.html