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The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
Administering
Transforming, loading, and extracting data
WebSphere Commerce provides multiple utilities for preparing and loading data into a WebSphere Commerce database. The loading utilities are flexible and you can continue to use these utilities when you customize the WebSphere Commerce schema.
Mass load utilities
The mass load utilities provide an efficient way to load large amount of data. However, the new enhanced business object based loading utility (the Data Load utility) is the recommended loading utility.
Transforming XML data
To transform an XML file into an alternative XML format, you must specify the rules for the transformation using a transform XSL rule file.

Transforming XML data

To transform an XML file into an alternative XML format, you must specify the rules for the transformation using a transform XSL rule file.

XSL provides the following features:

Language for specifying formatting for XML documents
Language that describes how to transform an XML file into another regularly structured file
The transformation capability of XSL can be used to transform an XML file into another XML file that conforms to a different XML schema or DTD.
IBM Rational Application Developer provides an XML to XML mapping editor that can be used to generate an XSL rule file that you can use with the xmltransform utility.

Procedure

To transform XML data to an XML format suitable to use with WebSphere Commerce: