An XMap uses input and output schemas to define the expected hierarchy of input and output documents. Use the XMap editor to define and manage mapping statements. The XMap editor contains the input schema hierarchy and the output schema hierarchy. Mapping statements link input schema elements to output schema elements.

An XMap can transform any input hierarchical document whose elements match the input schema hierarchy into an output document with the hierarchy of the output schema.

For example, an XMap can transform customer invoices to a list of customer orders filtered by month of the year. The input is an JSON document that contains a hierarchy of customer elements. The output is an XML document that contains a hierarchy of month elements. The output XML document groups customer order by month and includes contact information and order totals.

The following image shows the XMap editor.

The XMap editor contains input and output hierarchical schemas. Drag and drop between the schema elements to create mapping statements.
The XMap editor grid shows mapping statements. Use the grid to manage and edit the mapping statements.

An XMap uses mapping statements to define how to transform an input schema element to an output schema element. You can drag from a node in the input schema to a node in the output schema to create a link. When you create links, these are mapping statements. The XMap editor shows the mapping statement in the grid.

You can edit the mapping statements in the grid. You can define conditions to transform and filter the data according to different mapping statement types and XPath expressions. XPath is a query language used to select nodes in a hierarchical document and perform computations.

You can use XPath expressions to define the context for a mapping statement. You can also add various arithmetic calculations to a mapping statement using XPath expressions.