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Although EDIFACT and UN/CEFACT XML Header are the only formats directly supported by eXite®, it is possible to transfer arbitrary files.

This is done by wrapping, also called enveloping the files in the header part of either of the two supported formats.

 

 

EDIFACT Enveloping

Enveloping arbitrary data in an EDIFACT header is done by prefixing it with an optional UNA and an UNB segment. The UNB segment has to contain routing information such as sender, recipient and message class.

If your data contains characters that could be interpreted as EDIFACT control characters (+, :, ?, etc) , you'll have to escape them with ?.

eXite_link has built-in enveloping functionality for EDIFACT.

 

 

XML Enveloping

Enveloping data in an XML message is suggested for XML content. It is done by creating an SBD and SBDH containing necessary routing information and attaching the XML payload to the SBD, directly after the SBDH.