One File Adapter, many xml types

Hi,
I have to use file sender adapter to read files from a directory. The files are in XML format. Each file has a different XML structure and I can not distinguish by the name file the type of XML that goes into the file. How can I do that ?.
Thanks.
Best regards

Hi Francisco,
hopefully you solved the issue already, but maybe someone else has the same issue.
I just faced the same challenge.
In my scenario the all message types have the same receiver but different inbound interfaces and mappings should be used.
I solved it by checking the root element with a xpath content based routing in the interface determination.
It's important that you register the different namespaces used by the message types and then just insert the root element name and as compare operation select EX
In my sample I have to deal with two message types which use different namespaces.
message type1 eCH-0020:delivery xmlns:eCH-0020="http://www.ech.ch/xmlns/eCH-0020/2"
message type2 eCH-0078:eventReport xmlns:eCH-0078="http://www.ech.ch/xmlns/eCH-0078/2"
Therfore I inserted both namespaces in the table of the expression editor
prefix eCH-0020 namespace http://www.ech.ch/xmlns/eCH-0020/2
prefix eCH-0078 namespace http://www.ech.ch/xmlns/eCH-0078/
the value of the prefix is up to you, I decided to use descriptive namespaces
and then insert follwing XPATH expressions
/eCH-0078:eventReport EX
/eCH-0020:delivery EX
that's it
hope this helps.
Best regards,
Jochen

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I am trying to parse flat files that have a record type field in the first four characters on each record. As a test I tried to use the following record definitions:
01 CONTRACT-HEADER.
05 RECORD-TYPE PIC X(4).
05 TRANSACTION-TYPE PIC X.
05 CONTRACT-NUMBER PIC X(32).
05 CONTRACT-RELEASE-NBR PIC X(30).
05 CONTRACT-FILLER PIC X(2025).
01 CONTRACT-LINEITEM.
05 RECORD-TYPE PIC X(4).
05 TRANSACTION-TYPE PIC X.
05 LINE-FILLER PIC X(1664).
I also tried smaller records with simple test data. When I press the "test" button in the native file adapter the XML is never generated if I have more than one record type as above. Suppose that the contract-header record type always has the string "X001" in it, while the contract-lineitem always has "X015" in the record-type. I chose Us-ascii and chose $eol as a delimiter. The file on my windows computer has carriage return line feed after each record. I know that the fixed length converter works, but because the records really have 50 fields on each record type and are long, I don't think I can actually use that one in one sitting. Has anyone ever gotten two different record lenght cobol definitions to work? Do I have to hand edit the XML to specify the delimiter? I don't see any delimter specified in the generated XML before I attempt the test.

Rahul,
I recommned you should use "|" as "," can be embedded in a text string. I guess you can pass a directive to use to deliver "|" delimited file :). If you want to handle both then you might have to write a shell script or bat to pass delimiter as an argument which will edit and replace your control file.
Regards

One File Adapter, many xml types

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