Generating DTDs from PeopleTools 8.13

This chapter describes how to generate DTDs from PeopleSoft 8.13, and use these DTDs to create the OTDs used to create the business logic for the PeopleSoft Adapter.

To create the OTD used with the eInsight PeopleSoft Adapter Project, use the PeopleTools Application Designer 8.13 to generate the necessary Document Type Definitions (DTDs) using third-party software. You can then create an OTD that uses the generated DTD as described in Creating OTDs.

This section describes an alternative procedure that “reverse-engineers” a DTD from a sample XML message generated within PeopleSoft.

This procedure may not work for all message definitions. You must know the data constraints for a particular message definition to correctly populate the message with sample data.

Creating PeopleSoft DTDs involves the following steps:

1. Generating and Publishing an XML Test Message.

2. Extracting and Viewing the XML Test Message.

3. Generating a DTD for the XML File.