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Thomas Risse, Andreas Wombacher, Karl Aberer
GMD - IPSI
Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute,
Dolivostraße 15, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
{risse, wombach, aberer}@darmstadt.gmd.de
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Business data is frequently exchanged between
heterogeneous information systems using standard EDI
formats like EDIFACT, X12 and in the future also
XML/EDI. For inhouse use, data represented in these formats
must be converted to inhouse data formats by message
converters. With the growing usage of EDI, high volumes of
data, like financial transactions, must be converted and
processed efficiently and reliably.
Considering the complex hierarchical structure of EDI
messages, message conversion is a complex data
transformation problem. For efficient processing, the
different conversion steps have to be executed in an
optimized manner exploiting the available, typically
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