Creating CIDX Maps

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The Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor enables you to map CIDX documents. The Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor generates a file layout for you using the components and message types that you select. The Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor-generated CIDX map consists of groups, records, composites, and fields that are comparable to parameters that are defined by CIDX.

Note: You need to download the Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor component to use it.

Sterling B2B Integrator's CIDX implementation conforms to the rules of the XML language 1.0 specification, as published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). However, to be more flexible, Sterling B2B Integrator diverges slightly from the W3C base 1.0 XML specification. Sterling B2B Integrator implementation enables you to do the following with XML:

  • Specify the number of times that a group can repeat.
  • Specify the number of times an element in a mixed group can repeat.
  • Repeat an element (with a structure different from the structure of the original element) in a different part of the document.

Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor allows you to modify the map components by using the Deactivate, Promote, Split, Copy, Cut, and Paste functions.

You can create a map for all 62 CIDX Standards Release messages that are preloaded when you download the Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor. This includes the following:

  • Two DTD schema files are preloaded for the version 3.0 Invoice and Invoice Response transactions.
  • Sixty transactions are preloaded for version 4.0, including 60 schema files (XSDs) and 48 common library (XSDs)