An XML Source Qualifier transformation has one input/output port for every column in the XML source. When you create an XML Source Qualifier transformation for a source definition, the Designer links each port in the XML source definition to a port in the XML Source Qualifier transformation. You cannot remove or edit any of the links. If you remove an XML source definition from a mapping, the Designer also removes the corresponding XML Source Qualifier transformation. You can link one XML source definition to one XML Source Qualifier transformation.

You can link ports of one XML Source Qualifier group to ports of different transformations to form separate data flows. However, you cannot link ports from more than one group in an XML Source Qualifier transformation to ports in the same target transformation.

If you drag columns from more than one group to a transformation, the Designer copies the columns of all the groups to the transformation. However, the Designer links only the ports of the first group to the corresponding ports of the new columns in the transformation.

You can add an XML Source Qualifier transformation to a mapping by dragging an XML source definition into the Mapping Designer workspace or by manually creating the source qualifier.