XML commands

Parse XML

Add Parse XML, supply the XML text and choose a mode. SIMPLE is convenient when you need fields from a straightforward document. ORDERED preserves the order of elements and mixed text when that order matters.

Choose Return as, then use the returned value in later commands. Check that the XML matches your expected structure before using fields from an external service.

Generate XML

Add Generate XML and supply the value to turn into XML. Use the same mode as the parsed structure you are working with. The command returns XML text, which you can send as a request body with the appropriate XML content type.

Parsing and generating documents is intended for exchanging data. It does not guarantee that the output text is identical to the original document's spacing, comments or formatting.

Validate XML

Add Validate XML to check whether text is a well-formed XML document before processing it. Its result contains valid and, when available, a helpful message. Use a condition to handle invalid input rather than continuing with missing data.

This checks document structure, not whether the document follows a particular industry schema or business rule. Add your own checks for required fields and accepted values.

Safe documents

Documents are bounded in size and complexity. External references and document-type declarations are rejected rather than fetched. If a partner supplies an unsupported document, ask for a plain data document without external dependencies. Do not use these commands to load files or network resources named inside XML.

Inspect parsed values

For example, parsing <acceptance><status>ok</status><id>001</id></acceptance> in SIMPLE mode keeps the identifier as the text 001. Choose the parsing command's return variable as the function output to inspect its structure in Test.