XmlTemplate

XmlTemplate

Syntax

<XmlTemplate rootSectionName="...">
  <FileFormat/>
  <Output ... />
  <XmlSections>
    <XmlSection ... />
  </XmlSections>
  <TemplateAttributeInjections>
    <TemplateAttributeInjection ... />
  </TemplateAttributeInjections>
  <TemplatePlaceholderInjections>
    <TemplatePlaceholderInjection ... />
  </TemplatePlaceholderInjections>
  <TextTemplates>
    <TextTemplate ... />
  </TextTemplates>
</XmlTemplate>

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default	Remark
rootSectionName1	The name of the root section.	_template_

Child sections

Section	Description
FileFormat2	See FileFormat
Output2	See Output
XmlSection	See XmlSection
TemplateAttributeInjection	See TemplateAttributeInjection
TemplatePlaceholderInjection	See TemplatePlaceholderInjection
TextTemplate	See TextTemplate

FileFormat

Syntax

<FileFormat
  ...
  commentNodeXPath="..."
/>

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default	Remark
...	Click here to see the generic FileFormat options.
commentNodeXPath1	The template comment node XPath, this will be executed on the template and the resulting elements or attributes are inspected for annotations.		This is only relevant for xml templates.

XmlSection

The XmlSection configuration defines a section in a XML template. This can either be defined in the template part of the config or in the template directly. The syntax here is provided for the configuration, but the same parameters are also available when specifying the section inline in a template using the XmlSection annotation.

Syntax

<XmlSection
  name="..."
  templateXPath="..."
/>

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default	Remark
name1	The name of the section.		This can only contain a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _ and - characters.
templateXPath1	The XPath which needs to be executed on the template document to get the element which resembles the section element.

TemplateAttributeInjection

Syntax

<TemplateAttributeInjection
  templateXPath="..."
  attributeName="..."
  attributeValue="..."
/>

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default	Remark
templateXPath1	The XPath for template node where attribute needs to be injected.
attributeName1	The name of the attribute to inject.		If the attribute is already present in the template it's value will be overwritten
attributeValue	Default value for the newly injected attribute.

TemplatePlaceholderInjection

Syntax

<TemplatePlaceholderInjection
  templateXPath="..."
  modelNode="..."
  scope="..."
/>

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default	Remark
templateXPath1	The XPath to evaluate on the template document to find the node on which to inject the placeholder.
modelNode1	What node in the model needs to be selected in the placeholder (it will be the right side of the placeholder).
scope	The template placeholder scope. This is either current or child.	current

TextTemplate

A XML template can contain elements or attribute which in itself contain a text template. For example when a ETL package (which is a XML template) contains a SQL SELECT statement to fetch data from a source system. To instruct CrossGenerate to interpret the element or attribute as a text template, the TextTemplate element can be specified in the configuration of a XML template.

Syntax

<TextTemplate
  node="..."
  rootSectionName="..."
>
  <FileFormat ... />
  <TextSections>
    <TextSection ... />
  </TextSections>
</TextTemplate>

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default	Remark
node1	The node which contains the text template
rootSectionName	The name of the root section.

Child sections

Section	Description
FileFormat2	See FileFormat
TextSection	See TextSection

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