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| Wor Tony 2004-10-22, 5:49 pm |
| I'm using schemas to produce a 'type system'. This type system is to
'bubble up' from these schemas
into a front end data capture application that we are developing.
I have created a BizTalk schema project that is composed entirely of xsd
schemas. These schemas build up
from my custom simple types, to complex types (which themselves are then
built into further complex types),
this results in a hierarchy of schemas in which upper levels of schema
(complex types) access lower level
complex types and lower level custom simple types via the xs:import method.
A second BTS schema project describes an internal data format that has been
built in this hierarchical method.
Has anyone any observations to make on this i.e. is it a good idea to use
xsd schemas to develop a type system?
If not, why not?
Is anyone else doing this?
I've developed BizTalk Orchestrations that reference the schema projects and
map from one fornmat to another
before calling our data host using the internal data format (and then
transformaing the response back again). I have
defined the messages into/out of the orchestration in the orchestration
project (again using the xs:import technique) to
reference the complext/custom simple types.
Has anyone any comments on this design? i.e. should I define message schema
here
Should I be mapping in the orchs (or place them in the receieve port)?
The type system bubbles up from the web service that I generate from the
orchestrations. If anyone else is
doing this does the web service publishing wizard work for you? (it seems to
get stuck in a loop trawling
through my schemas before going 'bang' - the tracefile that the wizard
produces shows this loop taking place.
Sorry that this is all a bit vague but I'm just after peoples gut reactions
to what I'm doing i.e if no one else
is doing it this way is it a best practice?
Microsoft are aware of the problems that I am experienceing but I'm hoping
that I can get amove on with
this with the help of this forum.
Thanks for any input you can provide
AP
Nottingham - UK
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| Wor Tony 2004-10-22, 5:49 pm |
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"Wor Tony" <anthony@SHOESanthonypounder.com> wrote in message
news:mJded.558$EX5.405@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...
> I'm using schemas to produce a 'type system'. This type system is to
> 'bubble up' from these schemas
> into a front end data capture application that we are developing.
>
There's a further twist to this in that testing a map in VS.Net 2003 with
some xml, the map
works fine and data is mapped from one format to another, when I deploy this
into BTS
and the same xml is retrieved by the orch, the mapping does something
different. I've tried
rebuilding/redeploying my schemas. the orchestration etc. bu tno luck. Has
anyone else
found anything else like this?
Cheers
AP
Nottingham - UK
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