XML Mapping Editor

The XML Mapping Editor is a visual tool for defining the mapping between XML documents. Using the XML Mapping Editor, you can do the following: To get started with the tool, follow the Tutorial.

To learn more about the XSLT script, review the XSLT script generation section.


Xalan

The XSLT script that is generated by the XML Mapping Editor has been tested against the Xalan-J 1.2 version. A copy of the xalan.jar is included in the plugins\b2bxmlrt\xalan.jar.


Limitations

  1. The XML Mapping Editor does not persist its mapping metadata in this alpha. That is, if you exit the tool, it cannot resume from where you left off. This limitation will be removed in the next release.
  2. If you are familar with the Visual XML Tools on alphaworks, the XML Mapping Editor was previously called the Visual XML Transformation tool. In the previous version, it allows the user to create a new target from an existing source, and also supports more transformation rules. These functions will be added to the XML Mapping Editor in the future.
  3. Currently it only supports mapping between one input and one output DTD. Even though the Specify One or More Source DTD Files page allows you to enter more than one DTD, only the first DTD will be taken in as input.