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Status Submitted
Workspace Sterling Transformation Extender
Categories B2Bi Mapping & Translation
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 12, 2025

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Preserve text as text and Booleans as Booleans

We received the following XML:
<CAD05><false</CAD05>

The XML is defined as a "string" in the XML Schema. We output this to JSON to a field also defined as "string" in the JSON Schema. Yet, even with TEXT() or PACKAGE() calls the output always comes as:
"E_CAD05" : false

This is a boolean, and thus the JSON output violates the JSON Schema that we used to build the ITX map with.
This even happen with an explicit ="false" definition.

Because of the way this seems to happen as a post translation process even when the map is designed and typed 100% correct, any supplier input into a free-form text field that contains either "false" or "true" breaks our output.

IMPORTANT NOTE: There is nothing that seems to be modifiable in the map that gets the output to be treated like text again without looking specifically for these two values "true" and "false" in EVERY end user enterable free-form text field, which is quite impractical.

For a platform built on strong typing, this seems to break the mold.

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