EdiElement

EdiElement is the shared abstract base for EdiSegment, EdiDataElement, and EdiCompositeDataElement, carrying the ordinal position, raw text value, and element-kind classification common to every parsed EDI element so consumers can treat segments and data elements uniformly through IEdiElement.

Purpose

• Holds the Index (ordinal position within its parent) and Value (raw text) shared by every EDI element kind.
• Declares the abstract Type property, forcing each concrete subclass to self-identify as Segment, DataElement, or CompositeDataElement, which callers use to distinguish element kinds without type-checking.

Context

• Namespace: SAIF.Common.Files.Edi
• Assembly/package: SAIF.Framework.Common.Files
• Implements: IEdiElement

Public members

Member	Signature	Purpose
Index	public int Index { get; set; }	The element's ordinal position within its parent (segment position within a file, or data-element position within a segment).
Value	public string Value { get; set; }	The raw text value of this element as parsed from, or to be serialized into, the EDI interchange.
Type	public abstract ElementType Type { get; }	Identifies which concrete element kind this instance is (Segment, DataElement, or CompositeDataElement); each subclass overrides this to return its fixed kind.

Sources

• Common\SAIF.Common.Files\Edi\EdiElement.cs