• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
  • Introduction
  • Custom XML Conversions
  • Creating a Custom XML Conversion Definition
  • The Custom XML Conversion Definition Editor
  • Parts of an Input File
  • Working with Regions
    • Converting the Region Type
    • Adjusting Fixed-Width Regions
      • Example
    • Defining and Joining Regions
    • Controlling Region Output
  • Working with Fields
  • Controlling XML Output
  • Using Custom XML Conversion Definitions in Stylus Studio
  • The Converter URI Scheme
  • Working with EDI Conversions
  • Custom XML Conversion Definitions Properties Reference
• Chapter 4: Converting EDI to XML
• Chapter 5: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 6: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 7: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 8: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 9: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 10: Writing XPath Expressions
• Chapter 11: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 12: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 13: Working with WSDL Documents
• Chapter 14: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 15: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 16: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 17: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 18: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 19: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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If you specify the layout of the file you are converting as fixed-width, Stylus Studio uses a default row length of 80 characters. (If you let Stylus Studio determine the file layout, Stylus Studio will attempt to determine record length based on the line terminating character, if any.) You might need to adjust the row length of a region if your input file uses a different row length, or when converting a line-oriented region, like the one shown in Figure 166, to fixed-width.

Figure 166. Line-Oriented Region

There are several ways to specify the row length for a fixed-width region:

Each of these methods lets you explicitly set the row length. Alternatively, you can specify a Line Terminator character manually, as shown in Figure 167.

Figure 167. Manually Setting the Line Terminator Character

Specifying a Line Terminator character means that the rows in the region can be of variable length, based on the where the specified Line Terminator character occurs in the record.

Example

After converting the line-oriented region shown in Figure 166 to fixed-width, it looks like this:

Figure 168. Line-Oriented Region Converted to Fixed-WIdth

Figure 166 shows the same fixed-width file after it has been resized by dragging the document pane.

Figure 169. Resized Fixed-Width Region