PRB: Output Data Contains Empty Records or Fields When You Use an XSLT Map with BizTalk Server 2000

When you use an XSLT map with BizTalk Server 2000, the output data may contain empty records or fields. This can cause validation against the destination schema to fail.

Validation failure can occur when the destination schema contains fields that have a minimum length, and the field is not populated by the data from the inbound document. In this case, the resulting XML document has a record or records that contain an empty field.

Use the logical and value mapping functoids to only create records or fields in the outbound document if they contain data.

The Mapsample.exe file contains examples of how to use the logical and value mapping functoids with BizTalk Server to prevent empty records or fields in your output data.

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
The Mapsample.exe file contains the following files:



Release Date: Apr-02-2001

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