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Concept: Transform Steps

Concept: Transform Steps

Transform steps enable you to perform individual operations that restructure messages as they pass through your integration. Workday Studio provides these

Transform

steps on the

Palette

:

Transform Step	Function	Notes
xslt	Transforms an XML document using an XSL Transformation (XSLT) stylesheet.	Supports XSLT 2.0. Compatible with assemblies with a version number up to 2017.05.
XSLT+	Transforms an XML document using an XSL Transformation (XSLT) stylesheet.	Supports XSLT 3.0 streaming functionality. Compatible with assemblies with a version number after 2017.05.
fop	Generates PDF and RTF documents from an XML file.	Invokes the Apache Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) implementation. Implements an Apache FOP XML configuration file for registering custom fonts.
text-excel	Converts Excel files into comma-separated-value (CSV) text format files. Also converts CSV files into Excel files.
textschema	Converts text to XML, or XML to text, using a text schema file.
wrap-soap	Wraps the XML message in a SOAP envelope for forwarding to a SOAP-based web service.
xml-to-java	Unmarshals XML to Java objects using JAXB.	Implements XPath to extract XML from messages. Implements JAXB to convert the XML into Java objects. Inserts converted Java objects into the MediationContext .
json-transformer	Takes a JSON document as input and transforms it by mapping values to JSON Paths.
xml-to-json	Converts an XML document to JSON format.
json-to-xml	Converts a JSON document to XML format.
java-to-xml	Marshals Java objects to XML using JAXB.	Extracts Java objects from the MediationContext . Implements JAXB to convert Java objects to XML. Implements XPath to insert converted XML into messages.
xml-to-csv	Converts XML documents to CSV format, while streaming the input and output documents, producing a low-memory footprint.
csv-to-xml	Converts CSV documents to XML format, while streaming the input and output documents, producing a low-memory footprint.
character-conversion	Performs character-conversion operations on the text content of an incoming message.
mtable-builder	Creates and stores a mtable object in a MediationContext property.	Supports these child elements: csv-mtable-reader json-mtable-reader
mtable-writer	Retrieves a mtable object from a MediationContext property. Displays the contents of a mtable object in an output message.	Supports these child elements: csv-mtable-writer json-mtable-writer
etv	Transforms and validates elements in an XML document in accordance with attributes attached to those elements.
xtt	Converts XML to text in accordance with attributes defined within the XML.