Recent Articles

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI),

Tips for parsing and loading complex NDC XML files in ODI

This is the second part in a multi part series on XML processing in ODI. In our previous post Tips for Reverse Engineering complex XSDs such as SEPA and NDC…

Maciek December 21, 2016

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI),

Tips for Reverse Engineering complex XSDs such as SEPA and NDC in ODI

In this post we will show you a few tips and ODI issues when reverse engineering complex industry XML schemas (XSD) such as NDC FlightPriceRS or SEPA Pain.001.This is the…

Maciek December 19, 2016

XML,

No Code XML Conversion to Oracle

In a previous post we demonstrated how to use Flexter to convert XML data into TSV files.This was just an introduction demonstrating some basic features of Flexter including concepts around…

Maciek December 16, 2016

XML,

Converting Complex XML to CSV: A Practical Guide

Have you ever tried to process data in XML? Did you have to load its values into a relational database or simply convert the XML to plain CSV? What if…

Maciek November 28, 2016

XML,

A brief history of XML – From hype to useful data format

Is XML really dead? When it first became popular about 20 years ago, XML was meant to be the one and only format to serialize, encapsulate, and exchange data. The…

Maciek October 18, 2016

XML,

Take the pain out of XML processing on Spark.

Note: We have written an updated version of this post that shows XML conversion on Spark to Parquet with code samples.Did you ever have to process XML files? Complex and…

Maciek September 8, 2016