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Aug 8, 20084

It’s all for nothing if you don’t have freedom.

By Craig Dunham
Categories: Articles, EDI General, training
Tags: EDI • elements • freedom • rules • segments • standards

One of the things you may have noticed about Me when I blog, is that I tend to find a quote or a saying or a song lyric or a ... something ... that makes sense and drives My thinking.  The title of this blog comes from the 1995 film by (and starring) Mel Gibson called "BRAVEHEART".  For those that don't know, it's the story about fighting for freedom in Scotland in the ... 1500s?  One of the more "famous" quotes is when Mel Gibson yells out something about how they may kill them (the Scots) but they'll never take their freedom! Freedom, however, in something as strict and regimented as EDI may seem like a far fetched notion, but it's there.  Sure, we've got those lovely guides - those HUGE books - of standards and "rules" for the data we're sending - depending on the document - that tell us what we can send and how it should be formatted and all the rest.  Those standards tell us we should send this information in this loop in this segment in this element and it should be between 2 and 30 characters in length. But in that rigidity - in that structure - there's still some freedom.  Just look at the last sentence in the above paragraph - we're ...

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