Reaching back to 2008. Yes. Decade(s) ago. Python 2.5.
I was reminded of this when a former colleague pinged me about this: https://github.com/slott56/TigerShark.
Yes, it's an X12/EDI message parsing library from -- well -- decades ago.
Short answer: Parsing X12 …
Processing XML and X12 messages is a struggle. You have a number of use cases (I listed a bunch of features in Synchronicity and Document Object Models ). These can be tackled a number of ways.
What spoils me is the Object Relational Mapping (ORM) in SQLAlchemy and the Django ORM …
more ...Message-oriented applications involve an interface defined around messages (or documents). I've been working on applications that involve a fair amount of manipulation of XML and X12. Recently I started yet another, and started to recognize the essential design patterns.
There are four use cases. The first two use cases define …
more ...I hate to complain, but there's a Python syntax rule that has slightly cramped my style. The problem stems from a need to describe a really complex and extensible structure.
We need to describe X12N messages, which have a rather complex structure, and the structure can be customized. While the …
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