I have a job that uses tOpenbravoERPInput component, which calls the REST Web service available at: "http://192.168.202.128/openbravo/ws/dal/Product/"+ context.ID

This returns an XML like this (captured via tFileOutputXML) :

<Openbravo>
<Product>
<id>F2BEBFC542E646B2ABC48DBDF5318C59</id>
<client>000000002B81ED3D012B8270D1B30019;ADClient;MyCompany;;</client>
...
...
...
</Product>
</Openbravo>

whereas if I execute the same REST url from Firefox plugin POSTER(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2691/), I get the following result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ob:Openbravo xmlns:ob="http://www.openbravo.com" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <Product id="F2BEBFC542E646B2ABC48DBDF5318C59" identifier="ALTIMA-LLC-FS">
    <id>F2BEBFC542E646B2ABC48DBDF5318C59</id>
    <client id="000000002B81ED3D012B8270D1B30019" entity-name="ADClient" identifier="MyCompany"/>
...
...
...
  </Product>
</ob:Openbravo>

Questions are

1. Why does the Talend Component tFileOutputXML lose or modify the attributes? In the example above, we lost the id and identifier attributes for PRODUCT and CLIENT tags, though their values are retained as a string.   

2. Is this by design or a bug?

3. Is there a work around?

4. Is there a way to capture XML output from a component as it is?

Please help - I'm evaluating talend for a new project and could use your responses to convince my management to stick with Talend.

Thank you.

Last edited by dministrator (2010-10-18 23:13:56)