Atlas is an intelligent XML mapping engine that converts documents between structured formats, such as XML exported by an ERP or an e-invoicing format. Import the formats you need and map them directly to each other or through Docupath's canonical document format, the Docupath Internal Format (DIF).

Atlas uses AI to propose mapping rows. Review the rows before activating a mapping leg or compiling a project. Atlas transforms documents using a converter compiled from the mappings. Document transformation does not use AI.

Atlas opens from the Docupath platform and is currently available to tenants in the EU region only.

Direct mappings between every pair of formats require a separate mapping for each direction. For example, connecting five formats in both directions requires 20 mappings; adding a sixth requires 10 more. With the canonical format, each format uses one inbound and one outbound mapping, so a sixth format adds two mappings. Docupath provides a canonical format for each document type. Canonical formats cannot be edited in Atlas.

A format's two mappings are its legs: the inbound leg (format to canonical format) and the outbound leg (canonical format to format). Turning format A into format B runs A's inbound leg, then B's outbound leg.

A format describes one structured layout. Tenant formats are the ones your tenant imports with Import format, from XML samples or an XSD. Docupath maintains global formats, such as Peppol BIS Billing 3.0, and shares them with every tenant. They are read only, and Fork to tenant makes a copy you can change and use in projects.

A leg is a list of mapping rows. Each row writes one field, usually from one source field, and can change the value on the way, for example by reformatting a date or translating codes with a lookup table.

Atlas generates mapping proposals from the format page or during project setup. Generated rows have the status Proposed. You can approve, edit or reject them in the mapping list or visual editor. For a draft leg, use Describe a mapping change to request changes in natural language.

Activating a leg or compiling a project creates the converter used for document transformations. Before activating a leg, approve or reject every Proposed row and approve any Modified row you want to include. If any row remains Proposed, activation automatically approves all unapproved rows, including Rejected rows.

A project pairs a source format with a target format and is where you transform documents. On Setup you choose a mapping mode. Via canonical goes through the canonical format and reuses the legs the two formats already have. Direct maps the source straight to the target. XSLT compiles the mappings into the converter, an XSLT stylesheet (XSLT is the standard language for transforming XML), and Transform runs documents through it.

A format's legs are shared by every Via canonical project and every document type in the Docupath platform that uses the format, so activating a new version of a leg, or compiling one of those projects, changes the mapping for all of them. A Direct project compiles its own mapping for that source and target pair and does not change the formats' legs.

Atlas checks documents against the validation files attached to a format:

Atlas checks the source document against the source format's files before a transform and the output against the target format's files after it, and an error fails the run. The target format's approved validation rules, which you manage on a project's Rules stage, then run on the output.

Documents in Docupath are already in the canonical format, so producing another format needs only that format's outbound leg. Under Settings → Destination format & APIs, each document type takes its output from a Template or from Atlas.

Approving, rejecting or validating such a document first produces its output through Atlas and checks it against the format's XSD and Schematron. If the check fails, the action does not go through and the document stays pending.

Atlas is enabled per tenant. When enabled, an Atlas entry appears in Settings and in the user menu. Either entry opens Atlas in a new browser tab, signed in with your Docupath session. The menu on the left contains Projects, Formats, Back to Docupath and SHOW TOUR, which replays the page's tour.