XML is a common means of exchanging data on the web. Use XML files as a source of data and as a target for transformed data.

In this lesson, you have an XML schema file that contains data on the salary of employees in different departments, and you have relational data that contains information about the different departments. You want to find out the total salary for employees in two departments, and you want to write the data to a separate XML target for each department.

In the XML schema file, employees can have three types of wages, which appear in the XML schema file as three occurrences of salary. You pivot the occurrences of employee salaries into three columns: BASESALARY, COMMISSION, and BONUS. Then you calculate the total salary in an Expression transformation.

You use a Router transformation to test for the department ID. You use another Router transformation to get the department name from the relational source. You send the salary data for the employees in the Engineering department to one XML target and the salary data for the employees in the Sales department to another XML target.

The following figure shows the mapping you create in this lesson: