IATA Amadeus EDIFACT to XML Parser

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Hi,

I have a project in which i need to build a parser from EDIFACT (used in air industry, IATA Amadeus version) to XML and I don't know from where to start. First i tried to understand the syntax but it's so different from normal UN/EDIFACT and some messages can't be understood and found. I just want to know from where to start, what should I do and what tools to use, I'm really lost.

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Posted 30-May-12 4:48am

Mabchour 1989

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Richard MacCutchan 30-May-12 11:18am

Get hold of the documentation on the EDIFACT file format and work from there.

Mabchour 1989 30-May-12 11:19am

That's the issue, even the documentation is not well structured: many versions and some versions do not have at all some keywords that are crucial.

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Member 8630531 · Answer 1 · 2012-05-30T05:39:00

Hey,

in my experience, a lot of edifact-formats are very product-specific.
I decided for myself, to build those parsers myself. I usualy do this in two steps in my dotnet-projects:
1) Parse the binary message into generic classes like message, segment, composite, element.
2) Parse the classes product/message-specific.

I can send you some c#-code for step 1 if you like.

Another idea. Maybe you dont need to read edifact. I know, Amadeus have soap-webservices nowadays. I know, they are auto-generating those webservices from edifact-messages. Maybe its an option for you to access those instead of the underlying edifact-messages.