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Techniques of operating a GRC processing platform involve terminating retrieval activity in a data source when the data source indicates that there is no data to be obtained that satisfies a specified logical condition. Along these lines, a user of the GRC processing platform provides instructions to retrieve data from an external data source. As part of the data retrieval, the GRC processing platform accesses data from the external source and transforms the data from a first format (e.g., XML) to a second format (e.g., XML) appropriate for an application that runs on the GRC processing platform. After the transformation, the GRC processing platform receives an indication that the transformed data satisfies a logical condition indicating that the data being retrieved is not desired for the application. In this case, the GRC processing platform terminates the data retrieval.