x12xml_idtag.py location or is it deprecated?

[jonhairston]

Hello, i inherited some code that uses pyx12 1.5, more specifically the x12xml_idtag.py module to use node ids as tag names. How would one do this in the current version?

[azoner]

Closing — `x12xml_idtag.py` (and the related `x12xml_idtagqual.py` / `xmlx12_idtag.py`) were intentionally removed in a2cb35d on 2012-08-12, with the commit message "remove the idqual xml transforms — they were unpleasant." So they were deprecated on purpose, not lost in a refactor. Sorry the breadcrumb wasn't more obvious.

If you're still doing this conversion, the current options are:

• `pyx12.x12xml` — the default. Tag names already use the X12 node `xid` (``, ``, ``, etc.), so this likely covers the "node ids as tag names" requirement.
• `pyx12.x12xml_simple` — a flatter "simple" XML output.

The piece that actually went away with `idtag` was qualifier-based disambiguation (e.g. distinguishing `` segments with different HL01 qualifiers via tags like `<HL_22>`). If you still need that, you'd need to post-process the `x12xml` output — a small XSLT or ElementTree pass over the tree.

Apologies for the 8-year delay — closing as outdated.