1	DataDirect XML Converters® Overview

DataDirect XML Converters for Java is a library of Java classes that provides programmatic bi-directional access to numerous data sources such as EDI, CSV, and other legacy formats such as XML through Java applications.

This chapter provides an overview of the DataDirect XML Converters, including the types of file formats that are supported, how they can be used to access data from other sources, and examples of converting EDI to XML and XML Schema generation from EDI.