Integrate remote XML data

The IBM Digital Data Connector framework provides a generic XML DDC plug-in that is ready to use for integrating external XML data of the choice. Use this plug-in to render external XML data on the portal pages without having to write custom Java code.

The generic XML DDC plug-in supports the concept of list-rendering profiles. It therefore makes it possible to integrate XML data. The XML data can be served in arbitrary XML document formats. A list-rendering profile describes the transformation between a specific XML document format and the generic bean list data structure the DDC framework supports. In addition, the list-rendering profile enumerates all attribute names of the items in the resulting bean list we can add to the result markup. This way, the Web Content Manager Insert Tag user interface can present a dedicated selection box. That selection box contains all supported attributes for a specific list-rendering profile when you author DDC list appearance components.

See

• The generic XML Digital Data Connector plug-in
• Structure of list-rendering profiles
• Syntax for XPath based list-rendering profiles
• Syntax for custom list-rendering profiles
• The Atom list-rendering profile
• Work with list-rendering profiles
• Create and deploy custom Digital Data Connector plug-ins

Parent IBM Digital Data Connector (DDC) for WebSphere Portal