Editing XML templates
Using templates for data import
If you use a template created for data export, DataWindow expressions,
text, comments, and processing instructions are ignored when data
is imported. If you are creating a template specifically for import,
do not add any of these items. You need only map column names to
element and attribute names.
Every item in
the Export/Import Template view has a pop-up menu from
which you can perform actions appropriate to that item, such as
editing or deleting the item, adding or editing attributes, adding
child elements or other items, and inserting elements, processing
instructions, CDATA sections, and so forth, before the current item.
If an element has no attributes, you can edit its tag in the
Export/Import Template view by selecting it and left-clicking
the tag or pressing F2. Literal text nodes can be edited in the
same way. You can delete items (and their children) by pressing
the Delete key.
The examples in this section show the delimiters used in the
XML document. When you edit the template in dialog boxes opened
from the Export/Import Template view for XML, you do not
need to type these delimiters in text boxes.
The rest of this section describes some of the items in the
template. For more information, see the XML specification
.