GF.Message Translation
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GF | Message Transformation | Version: | 0.1 | 
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| Document type: | Generic Function | Owner: |
 | Converts/changes content of a message based on predefined rules during exchange. |
Description
This Generic Function belongs to Working Area Middleware. This facility is capable of changing the content of a message according to predefined rules. The changes can consist of any combination of
- removing (part of) the message content;
- adding to the message content; or
- modifying (part of) the message content.
Reasons to change the content of a message may be very diverse:
- to insert a link to an attachment that is being removed from the message itself and placed elsewhere
- to add a disclaimer to the end of an email;
- to transform an XML message into HTML according to XSL Transformation rules.
Icon
The image "Icon GF Message Transformation.png" (shown below) can be used to represent this infrastructure function in graphical Pattern representations that it might be part of:
Generic Patterns using this Generic Function
The following Generic Patterns use this function:
| Applied Pattern | Owner | Maturity |
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| Message Handling | J.A.H. Schoonderbeek | 4 |
Applied versions of this Generic Function
The following variants of this function have been defined:
No Applied Pattern based on this Generic Pattern (yet)
