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Property
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Description
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Editable
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Affects XML
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Navigational
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Type
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The type of the region that currently has focus.
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Yes. You can change the region type from this field.
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No
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No
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Name
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The name you want to assign to this region in the XML output. Optional.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Row Element Name
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The name you want to assign to all rows in the region. The default value is row.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Element Name Source
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Whether the source for the element name is user-specified, taken from the value of the first row in the region, or whether the row is named according to the WS-EDI standard.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Match Pattern
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A regular expression you can use to filter rows in a region. Only rows that match the pattern you specify are output to XML.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Cursor Position
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The offset from the start of the region to the current cursor location.
This value also appears in the status bar.
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Yes. Moves the cursor to the location you specify.
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No
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Yes
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Size
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The region's size in characters.
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No
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No
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No
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Portion of File
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The starting and ending offsets of the current region.
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No
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No
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No
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Row Count
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The number of rows in the current region.
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No
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No
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No
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Row Number
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The number of the current row.
This value also appears in the status bar.
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Yes. Moves the cursor to the row you specify.
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No
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Yes
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Cursor Position in Row
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The offset from the start of the row.
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Yes. Moves the cursor to the location in the row you specify.
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No
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Yes
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Row Length
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The number of characters in the current row.
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No
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No
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No
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Longest Row Length*
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The number of characters in the longest row in the current region.
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No
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No
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No
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Line Terminator*
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The type of line terminator character detected by Stylus Studio.
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Yes
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No
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No
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Field Separator*
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The type of field separator character detected by Stylus Studio.
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Yes
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No
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No
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Delimiter Pairs*
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Sets of delimiting characters detected by Stylus Studio.
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Yes
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No
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No
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Comment String*
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String used by the Convert to XML adapter - if the beginning of a row matches the string in this field, the adapter interprets the row as a comment and does not output it in the XML.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Escape Characters*
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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.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Toss Characters*
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Characters outside delimiting characters that should be ignored.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Field Component Separator*
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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.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Collapse Consecutive Field Separators*
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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.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Double Delimiter to Escape
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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.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Table 18. Region Properties
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