In the context of this documentation, data transformation is the term used to describe the mapping of XML data to another XML format. An example would be mapping an instance of a RosettaNet document to an instance of a ebXML document.
A process that transforms data from one coordinate space to another, such as transforming data in logarithmic space to data in linear space.
A key requirement of EAI and message brokers. There are two basic kinds: syntactic translation changes one data set into another (such as different date or number formats), while semantic transformation changes data based on the underlying data definitions or meaning.