Form/Template Fill-in the blanks

[Aahz]

In article <4b77a992-370d-4879-88a0-fdd6a23f7c5d at p10g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
allan  <kawenks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>My initial thought was to use:
>1. .ini files to declare the EDI configuration
>
>INI file configuration:
>* A "root" INI file indicates other INI files that define each segment
>of the EDI document.
>* Each segment INI defines the data elements of each segment and the
>behavior of the segment (one instance or multiple-instance as in a
>loop, sequence order, segment code, etc.)
>* Specify data elements as either constant, system function (like
>datetime), database field or object method (object being the
>segment's)
>* Load all the ini configuration into a "template" object. Each
>segment ini maps to its own segment object.

This sounds like something you want to use XML for.
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