XML document conversion and validation

The MEC includes a format-conversion function, 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 Development Studio 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 MEC also provides schema validation functionality, which validates incoming documents according to an XML schema document (XSD). Both the style sheet and schema document used for a given transaction are selected based on the TCP/IP port on which the XML document arrives.