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Dean Cyril Wood

2004-12-02, 5:48 pm

I am new to developing orchestrations. Most of my work has been in map and
schema development.

I am using the expression shape extensively. Where is a good reference guide
that I can use to help form expressions. I know how to do alot of the basic
kinds but am having trouble constructing more complicated ones.

For instance: I want to assign the record code of a node of the incoming xml
document to a variable. How do I get that value returned from the xml
document? Is there a method? What is syntax?

If you can point me to a reference guide that can answer these kinds of
questions it would be a big help.

Dean
Balaji Thiagarajan

2004-12-02, 5:48 pm

These article will help you to get a good start.
http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/articles/3820.aspx
Using xpath -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...g_orch_doho.asp

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Balaji Thiagarajan
MCP (BizTalk)
http://biztalkbits.blogspot.com
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"Dean Cyril Wood" <DeanCyrilWood@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:36C4DE42-FB49-4139-B680-6DD2ADE85DB1@microsoft.com...
> I am new to developing orchestrations. Most of my work has been in map and
> schema development.
>
> I am using the expression shape extensively. Where is a good reference

guide
> that I can use to help form expressions. I know how to do alot of the

basic
> kinds but am having trouble constructing more complicated ones.
>
> For instance: I want to assign the record code of a node of the incoming

xml
> document to a variable. How do I get that value returned from the xml
> document? Is there a method? What is syntax?
>
> If you can point me to a reference guide that can answer these kinds of
> questions it would be a big help.
>
> Dean



PBR

2004-12-02, 8:48 pm

Assuming you have created a string variable named myVariable, and a message
named myMessage in the orchestration:

myVariable = xpath(myMessage, "string(your xpath goes here)");

expressions are pretty well covered in the BizTalk documentation

"Dean Cyril Wood" <DeanCyrilWood@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:36C4DE42-FB49-4139-B680-6DD2ADE85DB1@microsoft.com...
> I am new to developing orchestrations. Most of my work has been in map and
> schema development.
>
> I am using the expression shape extensively. Where is a good reference

guide
> that I can use to help form expressions. I know how to do alot of the

basic
> kinds but am having trouble constructing more complicated ones.
>
> For instance: I want to assign the record code of a node of the incoming

xml
> document to a variable. How do I get that value returned from the xml
> document? Is there a method? What is syntax?
>
> If you can point me to a reference guide that can answer these kinds of
> questions it would be a big help.
>
> Dean



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