Native Format Builder (nXSD) files, advanced use
in a OSB project, we must parse flat files (fixed length fields).
I have used BEA MFL and I am not particularly enthusiastic.
I would rather use the Oracle nXSD extensions, since in any case we use a JCA File Adapter.
My questions (I am using "nXSD" to mean "Native Format Builder"):
1- Where can I find the XSD describing the nXSD extensions? Here http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017_01/integrate.1013/b28994/nfb.htm#CCGECFFD I could find a lot of examples, but not the full definition of the nXSD standard.
2- We would like to unit-test the transformation; is there a way to run a Java class, passing a flat_file, a nxsd file and returning the parsed XML ?
3- Is nXSD fully supported in OSB?
4- Anybody has ever run a performance comparison of MFL vs NXSD?
5- Functionally, which one of the 2 formats, MFL or nXSD, is richer in features?
Thank you sooooo much!
Pierre