Creating your own EDI Schema for BizTalk - Part I
Posted: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 11:17 AM
by
bruce
Filed under: Tips, Newsletter, BizTalk 2004
First off, you'll notice that the title of this blog includes Part 1. I don't have any other parts...yet. But from what I've seen so far in terms of paucity of documentation and general gotchas, I fully expect there to be.
So I'm create an EDI schema for a 204 transaction. Not a very large transaction, so it figures to be relatively easy to put together. As it turns out, there are a couple of loops within the transaction. Since the 204 transaction is a load tender, there is a header/detail relationship between some of the segments. So after create the header segments, I define an element called DetailLoop. Then, further down in the schema, I define DetailLoop as containing, among other segments, an S5 segment.
Once the schema has been built, I build the project that contains it. A build error is generated. Specifically, the error is:
Segment name [DetailLoop] does not start with value of tag [S5]
The problem is that the EDI schema validator gives more weight to the loop name than I originally thought. It is expecting that the name of the loop start with the name of the first tag in the loop. In other words, when I changed the name of the loop from DetailLoop to S5Loop, the error went away.
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