Definition
EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport) is an international UN standard for structured electronic data interchange between organisations. It defines the syntax and message types for business documents such as invoices, orders and metering dataData from electricity meters - the foundation for billing, balance settlement and market processes in the power market., with six-character short names such as MSCONSThe EDIFACT message for metering data. Used in direct exchange between market participants and in Sweden, but not towards Elhub, which uses XML., UTILMD and INVOIC. In the power market, EDIFACT is used where messages go directly between market participants without a central hub, for example in Sweden. It is not used towards ElhubNational hub for metering data and market processes in the Norwegian electricity market.: Elhub's messages are XMLExtensible Markup Language - universal markup language for structured data, standard in Elhub's Ediel messages.. The format is compact and strict, with no self-describing structure, and errors are often only discovered by the recipient.