Feature suggestion: EDI/EDIFACT Nodes

[mlauber71]

@e2dboden

A Reader / EDI Encoder node, which could extract the structured data from an EDI Message and output it into a table.

@e2dboden I recently tried my hand on combining KNIME and the mentioned pydifact package to parse EDIFACT messages. Maybe you could have a look.

Parsing EDIFACT files

@gentile I tried a first import and split up the messages with the Python library and imported them into KNIME (and Excel to show what they look like). Further work will have to be done to split the lines into the tables you want. I am not sure if the Python package would also offer this options but it might be worth a try (I am not familiar with the format as to be able to feed some sort of pattern into the code). Otherwise you will have to identify the blocks in the data and transform them to…