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Complex XML Assigner - how to use?

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Using v16.3.

Here’s what I’m trying to achieve.

I have some data:

"id";"name"
1;"apple"
2;"orange"

I need to generate some xml, eventually to have the data looking like:

The ultimate purpose is to send a SOAP call and that xml will be used as the payload for the call.

I tried using the Complex XML Assigner, and it tells me off for not referencing my data, but I can’t figure out the syntax.

I’ve defined the top level to use the data stream “in”.

And I’ve defined the “in” object with the id and name column.

How am I supposed to use this?

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Figured it out…

I have to define some xml tag in the template, then the syntax for using the input, if it’s called “in”, is “<in/>”.

I then use a column assigner step to remove the extra xml tags:

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