BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts – day 13. Once again, here is another pipeline component migrated to BizTalk Server 2020 that is part of my BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions UtilityPack project: XML Namespace Remover Pipeline Component. This component was initially developed by Johan Hedberg.
📝 One-Minute Brief
Introduces the XML Namespace Remover Pipeline Component for BizTalk Server 2020, a custom pipeline component that removes XML namespaces from inbound or outbound messages to support legacy systems that require namespace‑free XML.
XML Namespace Remover Pipeline Component
The XML Namespace Remover Pipeline Component is a pipeline component for BizTalk Server that can be used in any stage of both receive and send pipelines to remove XML namespaces from XML documents.
This component has the ability to transform the root of the message from this:
<ns0:Blah xmlns:ns0="http://RemoveXmlNamespace.BTS.BlahMessage">
Into this:
<Blah>
If you have the option, you shouldn’t remove the namespace from the messages. However, we don’t live in a perfect world, and we need to deal with legacy systems, and sometimes they require, for unknown reasons to me, that we deliver messages without a namespace.
To use this pipeline component in your projects, you just copy the RemoveXmlNamespace.PipelineComponents.dll file into the Pipeline Components folder that exists in the BizTalk Server installation directory:
- ..\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server\Pipeline Components;
on every server.
You do not need to add this custom pipeline component to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) for the BizTalk Runtime to use.
What is BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack?
BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack provides a collection of custom pipeline components that developers can use in receive and send pipelines. These components extend BizTalk Server’s out‑of‑the‑box pipeline capabilities.
The project lives in the BizTalk Server Open Source Community repository on GitHub (https://github.com/BizTalkCommunity). Moreover, anyone can contribute new pipeline components or enhance existing ones to further improve BizTalk Server capabilities.
At the moment, this project is available for:
- BizTalk Server 2020;
- BizTalk Server 2016;
- BizTalk Server 2010;
- BizTalk Server 2006-2009
Download
You can download BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack from GitHub:
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