XML output attributes

arunkumarmm · Post by **arunkumarmm** » Fri May 06, 2011 9:45 am

Hi,

We are trying to create a target xml file. The requirement is NOT to create an empty attribute in the target. I know used the option "Replace empty with NULL" in the xml output stage but this doesnt work for the attributes. Can you please let me know if there is a way to achive this?

Thanks in advance

arunkumarmm · Post by **arunkumarmm** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:25 pm

I am still looking for a solution for this

eostic · Post by **eostic** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:57 pm

I haven't tried it recently, but if you can't get an entirely blank attribute via the settings, it may require that you build the element yourself......build it upstream (concatenate the tags and things together, along with the value in the element, if there is one) and then experiment with the data element of "xml" to put it into the final document.

....one question is...why do you need an entirely blank attribute?

Is it nullable? ...and if blank, what is reading it? Is it a required attribute at the target side?

Another thought, if the finished document isn't that large, is to put in a bogus value and then transform it downstream to blanks.

Ernie