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l
Character per inch (CPI): The number of individual characters per inch on a line of
text.
l
Line per inch (LPI): The number of lines of text per inch.
XML/JSON Conversion
The XML/JSON Action task converts an XML job file to JSON or a JSON job file to XML.
This task makes parsing XML/JSON files much simpler in a JavaScript environment and also
allows processes to natively send JSON to a Connect template or data mapping configuration.
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 ':' is forbidden in XML element names.
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