"You don't have to rely on expensive and proprietary EDI conversion software to parse, validate, and translate EDI X12 data to and from XML; you can build your own translator with any modern programming language, such as Python."
by Jeremy Jones http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/26854 Excerpt: "Python is an object-oriented, byte-compiled language with a clean syntax, clear and consistent philosophy, and a strong user community. These attributes (both of the language and the community) make it possible to quickly write working, maintainable code, which in turn makes Python an excellent choice for nearly any programming task. Processing any "flavor" of EDI is no exception." Hi, just wanted to share with you, that the last issue of the DevX newsletter comes with a Python related article as first item in the list of subjects. Claudio -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list