Integrating Multiple Records in an XML Document
You must apply the XML document guidelines described in this chapter to all the records you want to integrate, and you include all records of the same type (for example, all Employee records) in a single XML document.
Processing the XML File
The completed XML file can be processed in one of two ways:
• Using the XML daemon to collect the file and process it.
The XML daemon processes external XML data. You store the XML file to be processed in a specified directory on the server. The daemon then reads and processes the file. See
XML Daemon.
• Using QXtend to convert the XML file to a QDoc to be processed by the QXInbound engine.
QXtend Inbound delivers inbound data to business component programs in QAD Enterprise Edition. The inbound data is in the form of XML data documents, called QDocs, delivered in either a proprietary XML format or, for a select few programs, as direct code APIs. QXtend Inbound operates over SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), and XML documents must be contained in a SOAP envelope in order to be processed.
For more information on QXtend Inbound and QDocs, see QAD QXtend User Guide.