• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
  • Introduction
  • DataDirect XML Converters
  • Custom XML Converters
  • The Custom XML Conversion Definition Editor
  • Parts of an Input File
  • Working with Regions
  • Working with Fields
  • Controlling XML Output
  • Creating a Custom XML Conversion Definition
  • Using Custom XML Conversion Definitions in Stylus Studio
  • Working with EDI Conversions
  • The Converter URL Scheme
    • Where You Use Converter URLs
    • Specifying a Converter URL
      • Example - Converter URL with a DataDirect XML Converters
      • Example - Converter URL with a Custom XML Conversion Definition
    • Converter URL Syntax
    • XML Converter Properties
    • Where Converter URLs are Displayed in Stylus Studio
    • Using Stylus Studio to Build a Converter URL
  • Custom XML Conversion Definitions Properties Reference
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Working with WSDL Documents
• Chapter 13: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 14: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 15: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 16: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 17: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 18: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Specifying a Converter URL

To specify a converter: URL, you need to identify

Example - Converter URL with a DataDirect XML Converters

A converter: URL that invokes the DataDirect XML Converter for comma-separated values (CSV) to convert the three.txt file in the Stylus Studio\examples directory to XML might look like this:

converter:CSV:newline=lf:first=yes:?file:///c:/StylusStudio/examples/
three.txt
       

    

The instructions to the XML Converters engine from this instance of the converter URL are described the following table.

Properties that use default values (a comma is the default separator character for the CSV XML Converter, for example) do not have to be specified in a converter URL.

Example - Converter URL with a Custom XML Conversion Definition

A converter URL that references a custom XML conversion definition might look like this:

converter:///myConverter.conv?file:inventory.txt
       

    

This converter uses myConverter.conv to convert the file inventory.txt to some format (specified in the custom XML conversion definition when it was built using the Custom XML Conversion Definition Editor in Stylus Studio). Note that individual configuration properties are not specified - they are part of the definition described in the .conv file.