Folder Stage ? does'nt make sence !

hamzaqk · Post by **hamzaqk** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:06 pm

lookin at the funcationality of the folder stage which reads mulitple files. it only uses 2 fields one which has the file name and the other which puts all records pertaining to a particular file in one column .....

i dont get whats the point of doing this ? because if you merge records from different files, even with the same format , how can they be utilized in future use ?

thanks

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:15 pm

It's not really for merging files. It serves three basic purposes:

1) Allows you to get filenames from a directory one by one.
2) Allows you to get filename and complete file content one by one.
3) Allows you to write multiple files to a directory.

Most of the time it is used for #2 feeding data to the XML Input stage which then parses / flattens the one long piece of content into individual data elements based on the XPath expressions in the stage.

hamzaqk · Post by **hamzaqk** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:08 am

hi thanks !! i was just going through an article..

it will help someone understand the same problem as mine ..

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/d ... g/#step1.2

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:41 am

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