Altova MapForce 2026 Enterprise Edition

This section provides information about various components that you can use as data sources and/or targets:

•Simple-Input Components

•Simple-Output Components

•XML and XML Schema

•Databases

•EDI

•CSV and Text Files

•Microsoft OOXML Excel 2007+

•XBRL

•JSON

•Protocol Buffers

In addition to the data formats listed above, MapForce also supports PDF components that can be used only as data sources. For details about how to work with PDF components, see PDF. This section also includes information about the MapForce FlexText utility that allows you to extract and manipulate data from text files and map this data to any formats supported in MapForce.

MapForce also enables you to map data to and from binary files (BLOB data). For more information, see the lang | file functions.