You can model a wide variety of message formats by using XML Schema files, DFDL schema files, message sets, and WebSphere® Adapters.
This topic area describes the concepts behind message modeling and the tasks that are involved in working with message models. If you are unfamiliar with message models, read the topics that describe the concepts, starting with Message modeling. These topics explain when you might want to model messages, and describe the message modeling objects that you can use, such as message model scheme files, message sets, and message definition files.