Subject:How to create an XSD for flat files with fixed-width records and multiple record layouts Author:Mark Lim Date:03 Sep 2013 12:24 PM
Hi,
I am evaluating Stylus Studio and am trying to create an XSD for text files that have positional records as well as multiple record layouts in one file. Each record is 1000 Bytes or so and is terminated by CRLF. All records share the first 100 Bytes or so, and the record type (name) is defined at position 95-98 (and not at the beginning of the line).
Subject:How to create an XSD for flat files with fixed-width records and multiple record layouts Author:Ivan Pedruzzi Date:03 Sep 2013 04:31 PM
Hi Mark,
Once you have built the template using the Convert to XML module run the the conversion on one of your input files, save the resulting XML on disk then run the XML to XML Schema Document Wizard.
File -> Document Wizard -> XML to XML Schema
For your mapping target, create the appropriate XML Schema using the EDI to XSD document wizard.
Given your source and target, you can create a mapping using either XSLT or XQuery.
Subject:How to create an XSD for flat files with fixed-width records and multiple record layouts Author:Mark Lim Date:03 Sep 2013 06:59 PM
Hi Ivan,
"Once you have built the template..."
Do you mean "File | New | Convert to XML"? This is already where I get stuck. The example in http://www.stylusstudio.com/varying_record_layout.html mentions in step 3 to define a separator. But I cannot specify a separator because I am processing a fixed-width text file. But I also cannot use the fixed-width approach in http://www.stylusstudio.com/text_file_to_xml.html because the records in the file are not homogenous.
Our inhouse file looks pretty much like a SAP Idoc (it is a COBOL file, though) but where the segment/record name is not at the beginning of a line but always in columns 95-98.