XML Mapping Records Options

The Records tab enables you to specify which part of the XML structure to use to start each new record. In order to map correctly onto a schema, you need to specify the record delimiter.

XML structure. A hierarchical tree showing the structure of the XML schema specified on the previous screen.

Records (XPath expression). To set the record delimiter, select an element in the XML structure and click the right-arrow button. Each time this element is encountered in the source data, a new record is created in the output file.

Note: If you select the root element in the XML structure, only a single record can be written, and all other records are skipped.