Processing xml files

Hi all,
I am pretty new to xi. I have a business requirement, where the 3rd party will be sending us an xml file. How can I process this into XI? Can this be done in a file adapter?
Please help. thanks in advance.

Hi Paul,
You have to use File adapter to read xml file.
What is your target? Is it Idoc? RFC?
You have to create data type as per your xml structure.
Check these links for more details
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[Aspirant to learn SAP XI...You won the Jackpot if you read this!-Part II|Aspirant to learn SAP XI...You won the Jackpot if you read this!-Part II]
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it to the XSLT file, is there a way that I can wrap the file using XSLT instead of having to create a separate program to make it well formed? Any help is appreciated.

Hello katghoti,
>>however the XML isn't well formed. Really it isn't even XML it is just a formatted text file
Firstly, we should know that a text file actually does not know a XML format, so I suggest that you could save the text file to a XML file. And if you provided XML is the whole content, it is not an invalid XML file because the XML document must have one
and only one root element. You have to add root element, so a valid XML file with these SampleSet elements should be similar with below:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SampleSets>
<SampleSet Label="Sample Set">
<Name Label="Name" Value="CQS6" />
<AnalysisDate Label="Analysis Date" Value="3/13/2015 12:20 PM" />
<CarbonAvg Label="Carbon Avg." Value="116 ppm" />
</SampleSet>
<SampleSet Label="Sample Set">
<Name Label="Name" Value="CQS6" />
<AnalysisDate Label="Analysis Date" Value="3/13/2015 12:33 PM" />
<CarbonAvg Label="Carbon Avg." Value="123 ppm" />
</SampleSet>
</SampleSets>
I am not sure how you want the XML be formatted, my usual approach to format a XML file is to open the file in Visual Studio and use ctrl K+D keyboard shortcuts to format the XML file.
>>is there a way that I can wrap the file using XSLT instead of having to create a separate program to make it well formed?
XSLT is used to process XML file, while you provided file is a text file, it does not recognize it.
If I misunderstand, please feel free to let me know.
Regards.
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