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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope that this isn't too far off topic, but I was
wondering if anyone could help me track down a program that Laurent Szyster
wrote a couple of years ago. It's called EMA and is an EDI (specifically
EDIFACT) mapper written in Python. I searched on Google for a download
spot, but came up blank. I also tried emailing him directly using the
email address below, but the email bounced back to me. If anyone could
help me track down this program, I would be most grateful. Following is an
abstract that I found about EMA:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Title: EMA, an EDIFACT mapper <BR>Resource type:
FYI <BR>Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:48:39 <BR>Source: E-mail <BR>Author: Laurent
Szyster (<A href="mailto:szyster@ibm.net">szyster@ibm.net</A>)<BR>Keywords: EMA
,EDIFACT MAPPER ,SW/OPEN SOURCE ,PROGRAM <BR>Original URL:
<BR><BR>Abstract/Summary: <BR><BR>Hello, <BR><BR>As part of an ongoing project,
I needed a program that could map EDIFACT<BR>interchange to HTML pages. Since it
has to be integrated into a larger<BR>network application, I decided that the
best thing would be to write one<BR>myself (I found Mercator and similar
software too heavy to use and too<BR>difficult to integrate or customize).
<BR><BR>EMA, an EDIFACT mapper, can parse and validate EDIFACT interchanges
and<BR>messages using definitions written in XML, then map them to various
text<BR>based format like HTML, CSV or tab-delimited using maps written in XML
and<BR>ad-hoc function libraries (using Python). <BR><BR>This is alpha software
but it already looks promising. Moreover it adheres<BR>to Open Source Software
requirements: it's free in every sense of the word<BR>("free speach" as well as
"free beer"), thanks to RINET s.c. good will. Any<BR>comments, whishes and ...
_code_ contributions are welcome (*). <BR><BR>Some web space and mailing list
are on their way, so to get EMA you'll have<BR>to send me short mail asking for
it ;-) <BR><BR>To test it you'll need Python version 1.5, the language used to
develop EMA.<BR>It will run on all platform supported by Python: Windows
95/98/NT, DOS,<BR>OS/2, all UNIXes, MacOS and even Java (using JPython).
<BR><BR>Laurent Szyster</FONT></DIV>
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