EDI Linguist

Enabling Linguist Support for *.edi

Abstract

EDI is a data format used by the supply chain and healthcare industries. Support for such files is not available on GitHub

EDI consists of text data, and the text is restricted to using specific ASCII characters. A basic character set is defined for all exchanges, and this set may be extended with additional characters by mutual agreement of the trading partners.

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Motivation

Enabling support for EDI based data files

Examples

Language Highlighting

1. Visit the lightshow app online

2. Copy and paste edi.tmlanguage.json under Choose a language grammar edi.tmlanguage.json

3. Copy and paste example.edi under Provide code to highlight. example.edi

4. Click Highlight

5. An image below should populate

Files

Additional files include

• SEF (Rules file, similar to INI)
• AS2 Protocol Transfer example with MIME content headers
• Example file using a | as a delimiter instead of ~

License

Mozilla Public License 2.0