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MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
XML, Xpath and XSLTGreg Alvord
Senior Data Architect, RealEC
David Krause
AVP, Radian GuarantyJune 4, 2012
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Agenda
• Overview– Xpath– XSLT
• Real World Scenarios– Background on system layout– Routing rules– Translation between two defined formats– Avoid system customization– Prevent semantic loss
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Overview
• Xpath– Syntax for defining individual pieces of an XML
document using path-based expressions– Allows for navigating through XML document and
applying collection of built-in functions
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Overview
• XSLT– EXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation– XSLT is used to transform an XML document into
another XML document, or another type of document that is recognized by a browser, like HTML and XHTML
– Can add/remove elements and attributes to/from the appropriate output file
• Sort• Perform calculations/logic
– XML navigation based on XPath
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Message Routing for Generic Endpoints
• Generic endpoint for all Origination transactions• Rely on either message level or payload level
information to route accordingly
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Message Routing for Generic Endpoints
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Translation Between Formats
• Convert external standard format to internal to be consumed by downstream application
• Logic can be simple 1-to-1 mapping OR more complex If…Then or Choice logic
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Translation Between Formats
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Translation Between Formats
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Avoid Application Customization
• Often times a trading partner will not adhere to all integration requirements
• Ideal to isolate these “one-offs”– Prevent from leaking into the base application
• Execute a pre-process translation to clean up the XML
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Avoid Application Customization
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Avoid Losing Message Granularity/Relevance
• Internal organization requirements vs. trading partner requirement may result in conflict
• Similar to avoiding application customization, can place translation right before message leaves network
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Avoid Losing Message Granularity/Relevance
MISMO Trimester MeetingJune 4 - 7, 2012 Santa Ana,
CA
Questions?
Greg Alvord
Senior Data Architect
RealEC Technologies
gregory.alvord@RealEC.com
David Krause
AVP Client Services
Radian Guaranty, Inc
david.krause@radian.biz