An XML document can serve as an input to or output from a transformation process. The structure of the XML document is modeled in an XML model (XSM) which is associated with the XML document.
In the following example, data from the Acme Data XML file is transformed by the Data Fusion transformation process (see Transformation Processes (DMM)), and loaded to the Giant Corp data warehouse (see Databases (DMM)) and to the Acme Corp XML file: