RE: Fantasies - Vote for flying pigs

["Hayes, Brian" <Brian.Hayes@Commerceone.com>]

The observation: 
>  For N partners that would make potentially N*(N-1)
> transformations/translations
used to bother me a bit.  Until I asked the question, what we doing to about
this in EDI?

Let's see, I have a translator between my newtwork and my backend system.  I
also have N-1 trading partners to deal with... Worse case is N-1
transformations/translations.

So the way I see it, I would hope that we are not worse off than we were
before and I believe that we are better off.

Cheers.
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Goatly [mailto:philip.goatly@bolero.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:53 AM
> To: John.Motley@log-net.com; Probert, Sue
> Cc: 'William J. Kammerer'; 'ebXML Core'; Peter Guldentops
> Subject: Re: Fantasies - Vote for flying pigs
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
>   I see what you are saying, but when there are more than 2 
> trading partners
> involved  ........
> 
> The transformatinos might become exponential i.e
> 
>  For N partners that would make potentially N*(N-1)
> transformations/translations
> 
> Unless of course all the partners use exactly the same format - but in
> chains the Banks might have to deal with all possible
> versions of an Invoice that any 2 partners could think up, 
> not to mention
> the ocean carriers whonwill deal with any product from 
> ball-bearings to Coal
> to clothing?
> 
> Please could someone explain how the standard is to be enforced ?
> 
> Cheers, Phil.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <John.Motley@log-net.com>
> To: "Probert, Sue" <Sue.Probert@commerceone.com>
> Cc: "'William J. Kammerer'" <wkammerer@foresightcorp.com>; 
> "'ebXML Core'"
> <ebxml-core@lists.ebxml.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:25 PM
> Subject: RE: Fantasies - Vote for flying pigs
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > If a repository held both the standard DTD/schema, built from core
> > components, and a trading partners XSLT scripts to 
> transform to/from the
> > standard to their form there would be a fairly nice path.  
> Such that a
> > second trading partner need only develop a transform script 
> to get to the
> > standard and then use the other partners "registered 
> script" to get to
> that
> > version.  Or serve it up in the standardized form for the 
> other party to
> > process.  Loss of information from one partner having 
> higher levels of
> > granualarity than the other are unavoidable.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Motley
> >
> > LOG-NET
> >