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# About the Main Tab

The Main tab is used to design your required XML structure for output by the tool. The structure you create here appears in the Mapping tab and ultimately made available to subsequent steps in the task. There are a number of methods that you can use to define the output structure, they are as follows:
|  | Replicate the structure from the input data source, that is, a previous step in the task. When a structure has been replicated this provides the base for you to work with, it can be left as it is or you can amend the structure by using the appropriate Add or Remove buttons within the tab.
|  | Create and edit the structure manually using the interface.
|  | Import a pre-defined XML or XSD structure.
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The structure may be exported if you wish to quickly recreate it again within multiple Transform Data steps, or if you wish to simply keep the custom structure as part of a backup.

NOTE:

You can set the properties of each node, element, and attribute using the settings `Type`, `minOccurs`, and `maxOccurs`. These settings only apply to the nodes, elements and attributes of the output structure to validate the data being mapped to them. Therefore, during design you must consider the data types and how many times a value is expected to be seen otherwise task failure may occur.

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