Richard Sharpe wrote:

has anyone done any EDI interfacing from Zope?

To my knowledge, no one has admitted to this publicly :-) However, there is a product/service from a company called XMLSolutions Corp. (http://www.xmls.com) call XEDI, that could likely easily be hooked up as a back-end to Zope. While ours is free (Zope), theirs is not! DISCLAIMER: Verticality funded XMLSolutions Corp., so they are a "Sister Company" to Digital Creations. So, if someone wanted to hire both companies, or either one as the coordinator, to create a Zope/XML/EDI Product, this could be arranged :-)