Command Line Usage

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You can run DataDirect XML Converters™ from the command line.

To specify a native file to be converted to XML:

CmdLine /to [/analyze] [/report filename] 
/converter name[:property_name=value ...] /in filename [/out filename] 

To specify an XML file to be converted to a native format:

CmdLine /from /converter name[:property_name=value ...] /in filename [/out 
filename] 

Usage Notes

Following are some usage notes for running DataDirect XML Converters™ from the command line:

The/to option specifies that you are converting a file from its native format to XML; the /from option specifies that you are converting an XML file to the file type specified in the /converter option.
The XML Converter specified in the name argument for the converter option can take settings for properties specific to that converter. For example, /converter EDI:newline=cr indicates that the carriage return (cr) is to be used as the line separator (newline) character.
property_name=value pairs cannot include blanks. For example, newline=platform is valid, newline = platform is not.
Use /analyze to analyze and convert an EDI stream; use /report if you want to save the analysis report (by default, it is written to a temp file and deleted after the conversion). The /analyze and /report options can only be used when converting EDI to XML (that is, when you are using the /to option.

See Chapter 3, Analyzing EDI to XML Conversions for more information.

Use /in - to read from the standard input.
To write to the standard output, omit the /out option.
You can use dashes (-) instead of forward slashes (/) to separate options – for example, -to instead of /to.
To generate XML Schema, replace the /to option with the /schema option. See XML Schema Generation for more information.

Example

The following example uses the EDI XML Converter to convert the input file, 831.x12, to an XML file, my831.xml using default values for the EDI XML Converter:

CmdLine /to /converter EDI /in ..\examples\831.x12 
/out my831.xml 

The 831.x12 sample file and others are in the \examples directory where you installed XML Converters. To learn more about the examples, see Example Applications.