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Re: How to send FIXML message
Hanno Klein / Deutsche Börse <>
8 May 2012 12:05PM ET

It is your choice and depends on your counterparty. You always send a FIX message but can do so in native FIXML syntax or in native FIX tag=value syntax or in FIX tag=value syntax with embedded FIXML syntax. Only the last option is done by using tags 212 and 213.

> Hi,
> For example,I want to send the message as following:
>
> <FIXML xmlns="http://www.fixprotocol.org/FIXML-4-4" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.fixprotocol.org/FIXML-4-4
> ../../schema/fixml-main-4-4.xsd" v="4.4" r="20030618" s="20040109">
>         <Order ID="123456" Side="2" TxnTm="2001-09-11T09:30:47-05:00" Typ="2" Px="93.25" Acct="26522154">
>                 <Hdr Snt="2001-09-11T09:30:47-05:00" PosDup="N" PosRsnd="N" SeqNum="521" SID="AFUNDMGR" TID="ABROKER"/>
>                 <Instrmt Sym="IBM" ID="459200101" Src="1"/>
>                 <OrdQty Qty="1000"/>
>         </Order>
> </FIXML>
>
> Shall I send it in in the format above or treat it as XML component and send it using the method as fix4.4 spec(adding message header and tail,using tag212 and ta213)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Lswallow


How to send FIXML message
Lswallow jun / YSStech   8 May 2012 6:26AM ET
Re: How to send FIXML message
Hanno Klein / Deutsche Börse   8 May 2012 12:05PM ET