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2.15 Translate Dialog - Translation Tab

Use to configure inbound message translation (with automatic use of the doTranslateFromNative function) or outbound message translation (with automatic use of the doTranslateToNative function).

Use of the translate dialog eliminates the need to create an assign activity and invoke the Expression Builder dialog to configure these functions. More

Element	Description
Native to XML	Select to translate from native XSD format to XML format (inbound translation).
XML to Native	Select to translate from XML format to native XSD format (outbound translation).
Input	Click the Search icon to invoke the Variable XPath Builder dialog for selecting your input variable. For example, if you are translating from a single string in native format to XML format, you select the single string variable. Click the Create an expression icon to invoke the Expression Builder dialog for building an XPath expression to obtain the input variable.
NXSD Schema	Click the Search icon to select the native XSD schema.
Element	Displays the schema element.
Output Type	Displays the output type (for example, domain object model (DOM) or attachment).
Location	If you selected Attachment in the Output Type field, click Browse to specify the directory location of the attachment.
Output	Click the Search icon to invoke the Variable XPath Builder dialog for selecting your output variable. Click the Add icon to create an output variable. This is an intermediate variable that you can later assign to another variable, as needed.