Misunderstanding: XQuery does not have a significant role to play in data transformation

XQuery plays an important role in data transformation as new schemas are adopted and existing schemas evolve. For businesses that need to build a supply chain application, the most costly area is transforming incompatible message formats. For example, imagine a buyer who standardizes on a standard like RosettaNet and is away from the original in-house developed schema. As the supplier, you now need to make your supply chain application compatible with RosettaNet but want to avoid the cost and risk of moving your existing system to RosettaNet. XQuery is a solution that enables your business to migrate to the new standard without stopping your existing sales operation.

XQuery provides you with a way to map, or transform, your existing schema to the RosettaNet format without having to write a huge library of new code. Instead, you write an XQuery that transforms your existing response data into a RosettaNet response.

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