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Input
The current job file.
Processing
The current job file is converted from XML to JSON or from JSON to XML. When converting
from JSON to XML, the encoding of the resulting XML file is always set to UTF-8 (which is the
default format for JSON).
The converted job file gets the appropriate extension (.JSON or .XML).
If the current job file isn't JSON or XML (depending on the type of conversion requested), or if
the conversion fails for any reason, the task raises an error and the current job file and
metadata remain unchanged.
JSON to XML conversion
When a JSON source file contains a single JSON object, that object's key will be used as the
root node name in the resulting XML file, and the root node will be populated with the data
inside of the JSON object. In all other cases, a root node named 'root' will be added to the XML.
It has the property "OL" with the value "RootObject" to define it as an array container. This
property will be ignored when converting from XML to JSON.
Note
In addition to being valid, the JSON should follow naming rules for XML elements. For
example, "adress_line_1:" is a valid key name in JSON, but it cannot be converted to a
valid element name in XML because the colon is reserved for namespaces. For XML
naming rules and best naming practices, see: XML elements on W3Schools.
Output
The output is the modified job file, which replaces the input job file. The metadata are reset.
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