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Converting XML from API calls

Querying the Amazon Product Advertising API with Flexter Working with APIs that return XML can be a painful process. First of all you need to go through the documentation to…
Uli Bethke April 12, 2018
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Converting GS1 XML to S3 on AWS

In this guide we will show you how to process GS1 XML files with Enterprise Flexter and convert it to Amazon AWS S3. GS1 XML Standard GS1 or Global Standards…
Uli Bethke April 6, 2018
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Converting XML to TSV on HDInsight

In this post we will show you detailed steps on how to convert XML files on HDInsight to text (TSV/CSV). We will use Flexter, our ETL tool for XML and…
Uli Bethke April 5, 2018
CSV, JSON,

Converting FHIR JSON to CSV with Flexter

In this post we will be converting FHIR JSON files to text (CSV). FHIR Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced "fire") is a draft standard describing data formats and elements…
Uli Bethke March 16, 2018
ETL, JSON,

Flexter 1.2.0 our ETL tool for JSON/XML has been released. 20x faster. Supports very large XML and JSON

We have release Flexter 1.2.0 this week. We have added some significant new features and improvements. Flexter now supports conversion of JSON to a database, text (CSV/TSV), and Hadoop/Spark (ORC,…
Uli Bethke February 23, 2018
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Liberating data from spreadmarts and Excel (aka OOXML)

In this blog post we liberate data and metadata from the shackles of Excel. We convert all of the content of an Excel file to a relational database and then…
Uli Bethke February 23, 2018