Extensible Markup Language (XML) specification for transforming electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions. A collection of EDI data is received in a batch. The batch of EDI data includes a plurality of EDI documents and each of the plurality of EDI documents has at least one EDI transaction corresponding to a transaction type. The EDI transactions included in the EDI documents are identified by decoding the received EDI data according to EDI standards. A consolidated EDI document is generated from the EDI documents in the batch of EDI data. The consolidated EDI document includes the identified EDI transactions organized according to the transaction type.