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by dragonwriter 2965 days ago
> I wish everything was REST,

REST and X12 EDI are orthogonal features: REST can use any format for resource representation, and X12 EDI formats are a data representation.

X12 EDI can be used in a REST way (one of the two mechanisms in healthcare standard operating rules for certain HIPAA-mandated X12 transaction is RESTish—the HTTP+MIME method—though there is also a SOAP method.)