184 Part III Manipulating Messages
sales-related information. Transforming the common format into a variety of
output formats, or fanning-out, makes sense because we can then pass this
information to various systems in a variety of output formats without requiring
an additional transformation. This is where XML—and Extensible Stylesheet
Language Transformations (XSLT) in particular—shine. There is a clear need for
transformation services within any EI process, and XSLT is an excellent tool to
perform those transformations.
This chapter will illustrate a few ways you can transform messages to
make your integration solution work well. (We will discuss additional methods
in Chapter 11, where we cover many of the tools available through Microsoft
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