XML document verification and conversion

The MEC server provides XML conversion functionality, which enables it to accept XML documents in many different types of XML formats and then convert these into the iXML format used by Infor e-Commerce applications. The conversions are made using XSL transformation documents. Typically, you will develop several XSL transformation documents, thereby allowing your solution to support the XML formats submitted from each of several different systems. The XML response being sent back to the external system can also be formatted using the same functionality.

The transformation document (also called a style sheet) used to translate each incoming request is selected based on the TCP/IP port on which the document arrives. To allow a given customer to make use of the XML Gateway, you must first develop the required transformation document for each supported document type, then assign it to a port in the MEC and finally tell the customer the URL and port number they should use for submitting their XML documents.

Besides transformation functionality, the MEC also provides schema validation functionality enabling validation of XML documents according to an XML schema document (XSD). The schema document used for validation is as well selected based on the TCP/IP port on which the XML document arrives.