Mapping: Sources and Targets
In MapForce, source and target are essential terms that refer to data structures from which or to which data is mapped, respectively. Technologies that can be used as mapping sources and targets are listed below.
MapForce Basic Edition
•XML and XML Schema
MapForce Professional Edition
•XML and XML Schema
•Flat files, including comma-separated values (CSV) and fixed-length field (FLF) format
•Databases: all major relational databases
•Binary files (raw BLOB content)
MapForce Enterprise Edition
•XML and XML Schema
•Flat files, including comma-separated values (CSV) and fixed-length field (FLF) format
•Data from legacy text files can be mapped and converted to other formats with MapForce FlexText
•SQL Databases: all major relational databases
•NoSQL Databases
•Binary files (raw BLOB content)
•EDI standards
•JSON files
•Microsoft Excel 2007 and later files
•XBRL instance files and taxonomies
•Protocol Buffers
•PDF files based on PDF templates created in the PDF Extractor (can only be used as data sources)