How to transform an XML file

Consider an XML file that contains information about books: their titles and publishers.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> 
<Books>
	<Book>
		<Title>Beginning XML</Title> 
		<Publisher>Wrox</Publisher> 
	</Book>
	<Book>
		<Title>XML Step by Step</Title> 
		<Publisher>MSPress</Publisher> 
	</Book>
	<Book>
		<Title>Professional XML</Title> 
		<Publisher>Wrox</Publisher> 
	</Book>
	<Book>
		<Title>Developing XML solutions</Title> 
		<Publisher>MSPress</Publisher> 
	</Book>
</Books>
         

You may want to create an XML file with another structure that should contain data about publishers and the books published by them.

  1. Design a workflow with AutoCapture, XML Importer and XML Generator components.
  2. On the Fields tab of the XML Importer configuration, add two search fields.
    Example:
    1. Wrox_books with corresponding XPath query: //Publisher[.= "Wrox"]/parent::node()/Title
    2. MSPress_books with corresponding XPath query: //Publisher[.= "MSPress"]/parent::node()/Title
    The following RRTs will be built:
    • ~XIM::Wrox_books%~ is replaced by "Beginning XML".
    • ~XIM::Wrox_books_1%~ is replaced by "Beginning XML".
    • ~XIM::Wrox_books_2%~ is replaced by "Professional XML".
    • ~XIM::MSPress_books%~ is replaced by "XML Step by Step".
    • ~XIM::MSPress_books_1%~ is replaced by "XML Step by Step".
    • ~XIM::MSPress_books_2%~ is replaced by "Developing XML solutions".
  3. In XML Generator configuration, use the following template and use RRTs from XML Importer in the node values of this template.
    Example:
    
                      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> 
    <Publishers>
    	<Publisher Name="Name1">
    		<Book>Title</Book> 
    		<Book>Title</Book> 
    	</Publisher> 
    </Publishers>
                   
  4. Run the process.
  5. Send the XML file to the process by AutoCapture client.
The following XML file will be created:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> 
<Publishers>
	<Publisher Name="Wrox">
		<Book>Beginning XML</Book> 
		<Book>Professional XML</Book> 
	</Publisher>
	<Publisher Name="MSPress">
		<Book>XML Step by Step</Book> 
		<Book>Developing XML solutions</Book> 
	</Publisher>
</Publishers>