@(#) $Id: README 7 2008-02-17 21:57:22Z mo $

This is an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) parser, written in C.

There are several different flavours of EDI, each with their own spin on which
separator and escape characters are used, but the basics are universal. This
library allows you to configure the parser to the dialect of EDI you're dealing
with.

Note that EDI is not a descriptive message-passing format: unlike many XML-based
formats, it contains very little information about what the message is and how
it's supposed to be structured; you're expected to know that already if you're
sending or receiving the messages.

References:

 EDI
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Interchange
	https://www.theedizone.com/edi_resources/edi_standards.html
	
 UN/EDIFACT
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIFACT
	https://www.unece.org/trade/untdid/texts/d422_d.htm