Another day, another BizTalk Server Pipeline Component! Today, I decided to release a brand new component called the Remove XML Empty Nodes Pipeline Component.
For those who aren’t familiar with it, the BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack project is a set of custom pipeline components (libraries) that include several custom pipeline components that can be used in receiving and sending pipelines. Above all, those pipeline components extend BizTalk’s out-of-the-box pipeline capabilities.
Remove XML Empty Nodes Pipeline Component
As the name suggests, the Remove XML Empty Nodes Pipeline Component is a pipeline component that can be used to remove empty nodes present in an XML message. You can use this component in any stage of a receive or send pipeline.
This component has a single property that requires you to set up:
- DisableRemoveBOM (boolean): This allows you to enable or disable the process of removing empty nodes from an XML message.
How to install it
As always, you just need to add these DLLs to the Pipeline Components folder, which by default is in the BizTalk Server 2020 installation folder. In the last version of the product, it will be:
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server\Pipeline Components
In this particular component, we need to have this DLL
- BizTalk.PipelineComponents.RemoveXmlEmptyNodes.dll
How to use it
As with previous pipelines, to use the pipeline component, I recommend creating generic or multiple generic pipelines that can be reused across all your applications, and adding this pipeline component to any required stage of a send or receive pipeline.
Download
THIS COMPONENT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
You can download the Remove XML Empty Nodes Pipeline Component from GitHub here:
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