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<h2>FlatMapElements</h2>
<p>
The Beam SDKs provide language-specific ways to simplify how you provide your DoFn implementation.
</p>
<p>
FlatMapElements can be used to simplify a DoFn that maps an element to multiple elements (one to
many).
</p>
<p>
<b>Kata:</b> Implement a function that maps each input sentence into words tokenized by whitespace
(" ") using
<a href="https://beam.apache.org/releases/javadoc/current/org/apache/beam/sdk/transforms/FlatMapElements.html">
FlatMapElements.into(...).via(...)</a>.
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<br>
<div class="hint">
Use <a href="https://beam.apache.org/releases/javadoc/current/org/apache/beam/sdk/transforms/FlatMapElements.html">
FlatMapElements.into(...).via(...)</a>.
</div>
<div class="hint">
Refer to the Beam Programming Guide
<a href="https://beam.apache.org/documentation/programming-guide/#lightweight-dofns">
"Lightweight DoFns and other abstractions"</a> section for more information.
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