Mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but it's possible to parse the (mostly) machine readable specs for EDIFACT messages to create schemas for reading massages.
A library that I wrote decades ago has some Perl which can do that to produce XML definitions from the UN/EDIFACT published directories. I hope that it can be useful to others: https://github.com/davidcoles/medici
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Mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but it's possible to parse the (mostly) machine readable specs for EDIFACT messages to create schemas for reading massages.
A library that I wrote decades ago has some Perl which can do that to produce XML definitions from the UN/EDIFACT published directories. I hope that it can be useful to others: https://github.com/davidcoles/medici