Region Type Properties

Region Type

The type of the region that currently has focus.

Yes. You can change the region type from this field.

No

Region Element Name

The name you want to assign to this region in the XML output. Optional.

Yes

Yes

Element Name Source

Whether the source for the element names in this region is user-supplied, is taken from the first row in the region, or is based on the WS-EDI standard.

Yes

Yes

Rows to Skip

The number of rows, starting at the beginning of the region, you want to omit from output.

Yes

Yes

Omit from Output

Whether or not you want to omit the entire region from output.

Yes

Yes

Size

The region's size in characters.

No

No

Portion of File

The starting and ending offsets of the current region.

No

No

Row Count

The number of rows in the current region.

No

No

Row Length⁺

The number of characters in the current row.

No

No

Line Terminator*

The type of line terminator character detected by Stylus Studio.

Yes

No

Separator*

The type of field separator character detected by Stylus Studio.

Yes

No

Delimiter Pairs*

Sets of delimiting characters detected by Stylus Studio.

Yes

No

Comment String

String used by the custom XML conversion definition - if the beginning of a row matches the string in this field, the converter interprets the row as a comment and does not output it in the XML.

Yes

Yes

Escape Characters*

Allows you to distinguish escape characters from separators - if a character in the input file is preceded by an Escape Character, that character is not treated as delimiting character, separator, or subsequent escape character.

Yes

Yes

Toss Characters*

Characters outside delimiting characters that should be ignored.

Yes

Yes

Key=Value Character

Allows you to set the separator for key=value pairs as seen in the input file.

Yes

Yes

Component Separator*

The type of character used to separate sub-fields detected by Stylus Studio. If this character appears in a string, the string is split into sub-fields when the input file is converted to XML.

Yes

Yes

Sub-Component Separator*

The type of character used to separate sub-fields detected by Stylus Studio. If this character appears in a string, the string is split into sub-fields when the input file is converted to XML.

Yes

Yes

Region Terminator

The type of region terminator character detected by Stylus Studio. The region will be processed until this string is encountered; after that point, all remaining data in the region is skipped. The next region, if present, will be handled immediately.

Yes

No

Collapse Consecutive Field Separators*

Whether or not multiple consecutive field separators should be treated as one. For example, if this property is set to Yes, X,,Y,,Z is treated as X,Y,Z. This property is most useful when spaces are used as delimiting characters.

Yes

Yes

Double Delimiter to Escape

Whether or not to treat a pair of delimiting characters within a delimited string as escaped characters. For example, if this property is set to Yes, "abc""xyz" is treated as abc"xyz.

Yes

Yes