2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , where: the received EDI instance document comprises a real EDI instance document; and configuring the EDI reception processing sequence definition that encodes the hierarchical EDI reception processing rule sequence comprises performing a real-time configuration of the EDI reception processing sequence definition that encodes the hierarchical EDI reception processing rule sequence.
3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , further comprising partitioning the encoded hierarchical envelopes of the received real EDI instance document and invoking the processing of the payload data packaged within the partitioned encoded hierarchical envelopes in real time using the real-time configured EDI reception processing sequence definition that encodes the hierarchical EDI reception processing rule sequence.