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MessageObjects Developer Tutorial I Get the free evaluation version!     Introduction Swift to XML XML to Swift Message Checking Ressources This tutorial is an introduction for the first steps with the MessageObjects library. For a complete API documentation, visit our JAVA- or .NET API Reference: JAVA API Reference        .NET API Reference   I. Introduction What is S.W.I.F.T.? Society for Worldwide International Financial Telecommunication See www.swift.com Financial transactions are described by standardised structured message types containing field identifiers ("tags") and which follow construction rules such as mandatory or optional field, repetitive sequences, etc. What is XML? eXtensible Markup Language, derived from SGML as is HTML. Where HTML is used for document layout, XML is used for data description. See www.w3.org/xml XML documents contain nodes identified by node names. If a data type dictionary (DTD) or Schema exist for the XML document, then rules can be defined such as mandatory or optional nodes, repetitive sequences, etc. What is MessageObjects? Obviously there are similarities in the structure of SWIFT messages and of XML documents. One of the problems of handling SWIFT messages is that the rules are hard to interpret and the format needs to be analysed and programmed with great effort. It is especially difficult to identify the correct branch of a message and extract relevant data for processing. Also the correct syntactical construction of SWIFT messages is difficult and error prone. MessageObjects is an API containing a library of XML, DTD and XSLT files with methods allowing easy transformation between SWIFT and XML. The great benefit for the user of MessageObjects is that XML is handled by commercially available parsers which interpret the structure. Although familiarity with SWIFT and XML is necessary to work with MessageObjects, the methods provided hide most of the underlying technology, so that a quick start is possible. Naturally, in-depth knowledge of both SWIFT and XML will allow more sophisticated usage, such as writing XSLT to create customised layouts.   The following tutorial will guide you through some typical usage examples. Only 2 message types are used for all examples: MT200 and MT502. MT200 is extremely simple, MT502 is an ISO15022 type message and is quite complex (containing sequences and repetitions). Please note that the tutorial was created with the .NET version of MessageObjects, which may vary slightly from the Java version.   II. Swift to XML >