QualifyColumns
Specifies how column names are qualified to ensure uniqueness in the generated schema.
Possible Values
None, Parent, FullData Type
string
Default Value
"None"
Remarks
By default the component qualifies column names only as much as necessary to make them unique.
For example, given the following XML document, the component produces the columns id referring to the company id and employee.id.
<company>
<id>Smith Holdings</id>
<employees>
<employee>
<id>George Smith</id>
</employee>
<employee>
<id>Mike Johnson</id>
</employee>
</employees>
</company>
When this option is set to Parent, the component uses a similar procedure to the one above. However, the component will always qualify columns by one level so that their table name is included, even if the column name is unique. For example, the above document would generate the columns company.id and employee.id because both are unique when including their parent.
When this option is set to Full, the component will qualify all column names with their full XPath. This generates longer column names but ensures that it is clear where each column name comes from within the document. For the example above, the component generates the columns company.id and company.employees.employee.id.