VorteXML
VorteXML Designer Specs
Features
- Generates valid XML documents from text data files produced on any mainframe, midrange, client/server or PC system
- Transforms data directly from existing text-based output streams including reports, purchase orders, invoices, shipping documents, log files, and HTML files
- Maps extracted data to a desired DTD or schema, ensuring valid XML
- Derives new XML content not already in existing text data files using calculated fields
- Uses filters to create XML documents that contain only data that meets the user's criteria
- Eliminates the need to use complex 4GL or other database programming tools to gather data for XML creation
Benefits
- Eliminates need to recreate XML documents from scratch
- Reuse existing documents for XML conversions
- Leverages previous investments in existing systems
- Reduces dependence on XML programming skills
- Long-term re-engineering projects can be reduced to integration projects
- Enables workers to spend more time on improving e-business processes, less on conversions
- Fast, convenient access to information in XML format
Uses
- Enable legacy systems for web services
- Facilitate Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
- Enable electronic bill and statement presentment
- Move legacy data into new databases including XML repositories such as Tamino
- Simplify the transformation of complex business documents and HTML into XML for use in infrastructure products such as BizTalk Server
- Facilitate transfer of data from e-commerce web sites to back office systems
- Reformat different text/data streams into common format for distribution
- WAP-enable existing text output
- Generate valid XML documents from current systems output for B2B and industry exchanges
- Reconcile information from different regions and different divisions within an organization
- Publish legacy data on web sites
- Much more
Minimum System Requirements
Hardware
- Pentium III
- 64 MB RAM
- 30 MB disk space
Software
- Microsoft Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT4 (SP6+), XP
- Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2+
- MSML 3.0
- MSML 4.0 (for XSD schema support)
Input file formats
Fixed length ANSI or ASCII text (TXT, PRN, SDF, etc.), HTML, ASP
Input file size
Limited only by maximum page limit of 1,000,000 pages
Input line length
1000 characters
Input pages
1,000,000 input pages
U.S. and International
Date formats
90 recognized
Currency symbols recognized
Dollar, Pound, Yen, Euro
Fields in table
255 maximum
Field name length
62 characters
Character field length
8192 characters
Numeric field length
17 characters (15 significant digits, a negation sign and a decimal point, up to 9 decimals)
Output date format
ISO 8601
