Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Creating a Custom Tagset

This example creates a custom XML tagset for an application that tracks the activity of an online auction of automobile parts. The only columns in the file with activity information are the part number, the part description, the seller's ID, and the asking price. There is one row for each part number. Assume that other files on the auction Web site contain contact information and purchaser information. The contents of the file are as follows:

The PROC TEMPLATE step that creates the new tagset PARTSAUCTION is on the facing page. Notice that it does not have a PARENT= statement as the previous example did. The entirety ...