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Posted on by Steve Simpson

i've got an XML file that has a combination of Sales and Purchase sections...A developer has developed an export from one system that we will use as an import into BC and we have header/lines.

within the lines we have either;

how can i have one xmlport that handles either of these within the lines of the XMLport

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,111 Moderator on at

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Using an XML port i think that will be difficult. But you can read the file into XML buffer or parse it as an XML document. Then you will be able to handle it.

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Steven Renders 5,672 Moderator on at

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Indeed, an XMLPort is not flexible, it simply expects all defined fields to always be there.

As Inge suggests, you would need to programmatically use the XML buffer of DOM to parse the file.

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