Informatica Corporation

Itai Kranz

Roy Emek

Kathleen L Gannon

Amit Sethiya

Boris Bulanov

Lalitha Sundaramurthy

Arun Patnaik

Rahul Gudla

Barak Adorian

Ido Grabinsky

Jedidiah J D Chow

A system and a method are disclosed for processing hierarchical data structures, for example, XML (extensible markup language) documents. A tree view shows a visual representation of the input schema and the output schema and visual representations of associations between nodes from the input schema and output schema. A grid view shows mapping statements configured to map the input hierarchical data structure conforming to the input schema to an output hierarchical data structure conforming to the output schema. The grid view and the tree view are synchronized such that modifications performed using any one view result in corresponding modifications being presented in the other view. Modifications to mapping statements are validated to determine if path expressions used in the mapping statements are valid in the modified mapping statements.

Validating modifications to mapping statements for processing hierarchical data structures

A data flow design system is presented that includes support for both static elements and dynamic elements. Thus, the data flow design system provides a design environment graphical tool to users to design data flows that leverage both the repeatability of static elements and the adaptability of dynamic elements. Static elements process data that typically do not change over time, while dynamic elements process data that do change. For instance, new data fields are added to an input data source of a data flow. The dynamic elements automatically link the new data fields to mapping fragments of the data flow. Mapping fragments process data based on configuration parameters including expression and filter rules. Users use a user interface of the design environment to view and add mapping fragments, static links, and dynamic links to the data flow.

Data flow design with static and dynamic elements

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Itai Kranz