{"id":929,"date":"2020-11-14T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=929"},"modified":"2021-07-13T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T20:10:40","slug":"text-to-xml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/text-to-xml\/","title":{"rendered":"Text to XML Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By using the Text to XML pre-processing feature, text can be \u201cparsed\u201d into XML for subsequent processing. This is especially useful when source data spans multiple pages. After conversion, the page structure is left behind so that the final output can include more or less pages than the source.\u00a0The Text to XML conversion occurs when the Text to XML preprocessor is configured for a form template. The configuration includes a set of rules and definitions for locating, extracting and naming data elements from the original print output. It uses a collection of Lines, Parameters, States and EndStates to define how the source data is parsed into the XML output.<\/p>\n<h2>Posts<\/h2>\n<h3>Basic<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/text-to-xml-editor-introduction\/\">Text to XML Editor Introduction<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/setting-a-preprocessor-for-text-to-xml-conversion\/\">Setting a Preprocessor for Text to XML Conversion<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Getting Started Guide<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/eformz-txt-to-xml-guide-getting-started\/\">eFORMz TXT to XML Guide: Getting Started<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/eformz-txt-to-xml-guide-reset-line-number-count\/\">eFORMz TXT to XML Guide: Reset Line Number Count<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/eformz-txt-to-xml-guide-states\/\">eFORMz TXT To XML Guide: States<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/eformz-txt-to-xml-guide-state-loops\/\">eFORMz TXT To XML Guide: State Loops<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Lines and Parameters<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/text-to-xml-line-and-state-viewer\/\">Text to XML Line and State Viewer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/adding-lines-parameters\/\">Adding Lines &amp; Parameters<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/adding-lines-parameters-in-the-text-to-xml-editor\/\">Adding Lines &amp; Parameters in the Text to the XML Editor<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/troubleshooting-with-lines-parameters-comments-and-remarks\/\">Troubleshooting with Lines &amp; Parameters: Comments &amp; Remarks<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/troubleshooting-with-lines-parameters-detail-lines\/\">Troubleshooting with Lines &amp; Parameters: Detail Lines<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/troubleshooting-with-lines-parameters-white-space\/\">Troubleshooting with Lines &amp; Parameters: White Space<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>States<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/what-is-a-state\/\">What is a State?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/adding-states-in-the-text-to-xml-editor\/\">Adding States in the Text to XML Editor<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/troubleshooting-with-states\/\">Troubleshooting with States<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Regular Expressions<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/regular-expressions-2\/\">Regular Expressions<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/matches-and-groups-in-the-text-to-xml-preprocessor\/\">Matches and Groups in the Text To XML Preprocessor<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Advanced<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/setting-a-sequence-number-in-text-to-xml\/\">Setting a Sequence Number in Text to XML<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/converting-scsa-or-scsz-from-ebcdic-into-unicode\/\">Converting .scsa or scsz from EBCDIC into Unicode<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By using the Text to XML pre-processing feature, text can be \u201cparsed\u201d into XML for subsequent processing. This is especially useful when source data spans multiple pages. After conversion, the page structure is left behind so that the final output can include more or less pages than the source.\u00a0The Text to XML conversion occurs when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,58],"tags":[6,266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9348,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/9348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}