# Data Transformations


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* [Parsing Lines](parsing-lines.md)
* [JSON](json.md)
* [Compression](compression.md)
* [Comma Separated Files - CSV](csv.md)
* [RecordIO Framing](simple-codecs.md)
* [Text and charsets](text.md)
* [Extensible Markup Language - XML](xml.md)

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Data transformation is an important part of integration with external systems.

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[Contributions](https://github.com/akka/alpakka/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) are very welcome.
[Creating an issue](https://github.com/akka/alpakka/issues) for discussion is a good first step for such contributions.


