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l From the Welcome screen
1.
Open the PlanetPress ConnectWelcome page by clicking the icon at the top right
or select the Help menu and then Welcome.
2.
Click Create a New Configuration.
3.
From the Using a wizard pane, select XML.
4.
Click the Browse button and open the XML file you want to work with. Click Next.
l From the File menu
1.
In the menu, click File > New.
2.
Click the Data mapping Wizards drop-down and select From XML File.
3.
Click Next.
4.
Click the Browse button and open the XML file you want to work with. Click Next.
After selecting the file, you have to set the split level and trigger type:
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XML Elements: This is a list of node elements that have children nodes. Select the level
in the data that will define the source record.
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Trigger: select On element to create a record in the Data mapping for each occurrence of
the node element selected in the XML Elements field, or select On change to create a
record each time the element is different. (Check the option to include attributes in the list
of content items that can trigger a boundary.)
Note
The DataMapper only extracts elements for which at least one value is defined in the file. Attribute
values are not taken into account.
Attribute values (prefixed with an @ sign in the Data Viewer) are not extracted automatically.
Click Finish to close the dialog and open the data mapping configuration.
Data mapping workflow
A data mapping workflow is a series of extraction instructions, called steps. These steps
process and extract the data from the source and store them in records, of which the structure is
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