Chapter 3 Converting Non-XML Files to XML


Stylus Studio uses DataDirectXML Converters to convert incoming streams of data from native formats to outgoing streams of XML, and vice-versa. Stylus Studio includes XML Converters for EDI, CSV, binary, and many other file formats. You can also create custom XML converters to convert formats not already supported by DataDirect XML Converters.

This chapter describes how to use DataDirect XML Converters to convert files in Stylus Studio, how to create your own custom XML converters, and how to use files you convert on-the-fly elsewhere in Stylus Studio - as a source for XQuery and XSLT design, for example.

You can read about other video demonstrations for the custom XML conversion definition module here: http://www.stylusstudio.com/learn_convert_to_xml.html#converttoxml.

A complete list of all the videos demonstrating Stylus Studio's features is here: http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_videos.html.

This chapter covers the following topics:

JSP Editor

Edit and Validate JSP 1.2 and JSP 2.0 documents. Includes JSP syntax coloring, JSP code completion and more.

Web Service Testing Tools

The Stylus Studio Web Service Tester allows you to easily locate, build references to, and test Web services for XML applications based on WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI standard Web service technologies.

Learn Convert to XML

Convert to XML lets you convert .txt, binary, and EDI files to XML documents. Convert to XML works on a single document, or to build reusable converters that let you open flat files as XML documents. Free online demonstration!

XML Operations

Using XML Pipeline it's easy to visually specify a series of XML operations to apply on your XML data, including parsing, validating, converting and transforming, according to the needs of your business application.

Stylus Most Wanted

 
Free Stylus Studio XML Training:
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