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Is there a Transformation engine or libary using .NET ?

Hi We're looking for a Transformation library or engine which can read any input (EDIfact files, CSV, XML, stuff like that. So files (or webservices results) that contain data which must be transformed to a known business object structure.) This data should be transformed this to a existing business object using custom rules. XSLT is ...

Altova Tools and Visual Studio? Anybody..?

I'm on a new project and the BA's want to use StyleVision and some of the other Altova tools to work with the client and IM guys. Altova lists integration with VS. Basically, BA takes xsd, mocks up UI with it and then I use that to wire everything up. This is going to be a ASP.NET maybe WPF/Silverlight project. Does anybody have any...

Map XML data from different XML Schema

Hi, We've an XML contains data. We need to extract data from it and move it in to a different XML. Both XMLs are different in structure. We have Altova and we want to do this job by using it. Any solution on this; which Altova tool will be best for this job and how? Thanks. ...

xml to oracle conversion

Hi, I would like to know whether there are any tools which convert xml data into Oracle tables. I came across Altova's MapForce. But I am not sure whether I could use that for achieving this. Could someone suggest any other alternate option / or any help documentation of Mapforce which talks about this conversion. Thanks, Shafi ...

Altova Mapforce: Can it create all elements in the output XSD?

Good Afternoon Developers, Just a quick question (I hope!) I am creating an XSLT file through Altova Mapforce and I was wondering if anyone knows whether it is possible to specify that the XSLT stipulates to create all elements and nodes in the Output XSD file even if there is no Input stipulated from the Input XSD? I know that I can ...

Altova MapForce - maxLength of element content validation

Hi guys I've mapped one XSD schema to another one using Altova MapForce and generated Java classes from it. So far so good, Java works nice. However I've noticed that the mapper is not validating the maximum length of strings in input XML. For example we have an element which is a type of String with following constraint : <xsd:rest...

When to use memberEnd and when navigableOwnedEnd in an UML class diagram?

I've download a trial of Altova UModel and am starting using UML. As a practical beginning I am modelling a personal information manager application, which includes a web bookmark managing. A Bookmark can belong to many (or no) Tags at once and a Tag can contain many (or no if all the bookmarks it contained were deleted) bookmarks. The ...

Using Altova XmlSpy with web services!

Jumping into a project I'm kinda stuck. A project that worked with XML through Altova XmlSpy generated objects and as a intern I got stuck wiht trying to implement it as a Web Service a project that had been started and then abandoned. One problem I notice is that we had been trying to return from the web method one of the objects creat...

Alternative to Altova's MissionKit

Anyone know of any good alternatives (other than those listed below which really are only good at specific XML development tasks)? The Why (if you're interested): I've been doing XML development on and off for years now, but someone brought XMLSpy to my attention recently, and it is awesome - the price isn't. Lately I've been using a c...

Capturing Field Name Metadata from a CSV File in Altova MapForce

I've been asked to prototype a replacement "file transformation process" (that currently is a mess of SQL) using Altova's MapForce. My input is a CSV file with headers. My problem is that I need to capture both the data AND the column name to use in downstream processing. I need to have MapForce feed a C# method (imported as that takes ...

HowTo use javascript with parameters in Altova StyleVision

I'm trying to include a javascript with two paramters in Altova SytleVision, but in every example I find the javascripts do not use any parameters. I'm lost on how to define/use parameters in this tool with javascript. ...