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  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Servers
  4. Console Client
  5. Search Clients
  6. Table Loader
  7. Update Synchronizer
  8. Globalization
  9. Siebel Connector
  10. Web Services
  11. ASM Workbench
  12. Cluster Merge Rules
  13. Forced Link and Unlink
  14. System Backup and Restore
  15. Batch Utilities

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XML Input

XML Input

relate
 can read input records from a XML file instead of a flat file or SQL database. In order to do this you must:
  • define source table(s) in the UST Section of the SDF using the
    define_source
     clause
  • create a Logical-File Definition with
    INPUT-FORMAT=XML
  • run
    relate
     with the input file parameter set to
    lfile=xxx
     where
    xxx
     is the name of the Logical-File Definition.
The source definition must match the layout of the IDT (same field names, offsets and lengths - and XML tags are case sensitive). If it does not, you can specify an XSLT clause, which is a reference to another XML logical-file-definition, which must be a valid XSLT stylesheet. This can be used to transform the XML input file into the required form.
For example: 

logical-file-definition
*======================
NAME= 							  lf-relate-xml
INPUT-FORMAT= 					  XML
PHYSICAL-FILE= 				  "+/data/relate.xml"
XSLT= 							  lf-input-stylesheet
*
logical-file-definition
*======================
NAME= 							  lf-input-stylesheet
COMMENT= 						  "input stylesheet for initial load"
PHYSICAL-FILE= 				  "+/data/relate.xsl"
FORMAT= 							  XML
*
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