August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
15h 3m
English
Content preview from Using XML with Legacy Business Applications
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File Description Document Schemas
As with CSV formats there are four schemas involved in describing flat files.
FlatSourceFileDescription.xsd: This schema is for file description documents that describe conversions in which the source format is a flat file.
FlatTargetFileDescription.xsd: This schema is for file description documents that describe conversions in which the target format is a flat file.
FlatCommonFileDescription.xsd: This type library schema is used by the two previous schemas.
BBCommonFileDescription.xsd: This schema specifies types used in all the Babel Blaster conversions. We are adding a few things to the similar schema introduced in Chapter 7.
To prevent further cluttering of this chapter with XML code listings, I'll just ...