Patent ID: 7620645

Claim:
A method for developing a file corresponding to an electronic data interchange (EDI) schema, said method comprising: selecting the EDI schema for transmission to a destination device; identifying a plurality of syntax structures in the selected EDI schema, said plurality of syntax structures defining a type of transaction associated with the EDI schema, said plurality of syntax structures include structure elements and a plurality of EDI data values corresponding to each of the structure elements; extracting only the plurality of EDI data values from the structure elements of the identified plurality of syntax structures according to the defined type; generating a file corresponding to the type and including the extracted data values in the generated file such that the EDI schema can be re-created from the generated file, wherein said generated file has only the extracted data values without the identified plurality of syntax structures; and transmitting the generated file separately from the plurality of syntax structures of the transaction type associated with the EDI schema to a receiving computing device for combining the generated file and the plurality of syntax structures to re-create the EDI schema on the computing device.