UN/EDIFACT DRAFT DIRECTORY

PART 4  UNITED NATIONS RULES FOR ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE
        FOR ADMINISTRATION, COMMERCE AND TRANSPORT


CHAPTER 2.2 - General Information: UN/EDIFACT Application Syntax
              Rules (ISO 9735) Issue 94.2, March 1994


The standard ISO 9735, Electronic Data Interchange for
Administration, Commerce and Transport (EDIFACT) - Application level
syntax rules, has received an Amendment 1 dated 1992-12-01.

   This Amendment 1 is as follows:

Clause 2 (Normative references)
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   Add a footnote reference "1)" after the title of ISO 8859.

   Add a footnote as follows:

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1) See also annex D.

Clause 4 (Syntax levels)
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Add the words ", see annex D" at the end of the second sentence in
the first paragraph.

Add the words "and annex D" after the words "clause 5" in the third 
paragraph.

Annex D
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In summary, this annex contains the codes for data elements 0001, 
syntax identifier, in the interchange header UNB and describes the
corresponding character sets.

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Note: The earlier versions of ISO 9735 (1988-07-15 and 1990-11-01)
are still usable for the interchange of EDIFACT messages. The 1988
version is identified by a value of 1, and the 1990 version by a
value of 2 in the mandatory data element 0002 (Syntax version
number) in the segment UNB (Interchange header).

When this 1992 version is used the value in data element 0002 shall
be 3.