2.17. The Type Attribute

The example below demonstrates support for the type attribute. 
<medi:edimap xmlns:medi="http://www.milyn.org/schema/edi-message-mapping-1.2.xsd">
 
    <medi:description name="Segment Definition DVD Order" version="1.0"/>
 
    <medi:delimiters segment="&#10;" field="*" component="^" sub-component="~" escape="?"/>
 
    <medi:segments xmltag="Order">
 
        <medi:segment segcode="HDR" xmltag="header">
            <medi:field xmltag="order-id"/>
            <medi:field xmltag="status-code" type="Integer"/>
            <medi:field xmltag="net-amount" type="BigDecimal"/>
            <medi:field xmltag="total-amount" type="BigDecimal"/>
            <medi:field xmltag="tax" type="BigDecimal"/>
            <medi:field xmltag="date" type="Date" typeParameters="format=yyyyHHmm"/>
        </medi:segment>
 
    </medi:segments>
 
</medi:edimap>
You can use type system for different things, including:
  • field validation
  • Edifact Java Compilation