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BizTalk Mapping – Basic Concepts of Building BizTalk Map
Sandro Pereira
Nov 8, 2010
At its core, BizTalk Server is an integration engine To make different systems talk to one another, you almost always need to translate data from one format
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BizTalk XSLT Reuse (xsl:include and xsl:import): Resolving of external URIs was prohibited error
Sandro Pereira
Apr 26, 2010
A client of mine uses a strategy for re-use XSL, basically, they have a custom XSLT with external XSLTs that contain global functions that can be used inside
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BizTalk Mapper – Cannot load source/destination schema
Sandro Pereira
Apr 26, 2010
There is nothing more frustrating than opening a complex BizTalk Map only to find a blank screen and an error message stating that the Source or Destination
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Calling an external assembly from Custom XSLT – Custom Extension XML (Grid Property)
Sandro Pereira
Apr 6, 2010
While the BizTalk Mapper provides many functoids, complex business logic is often best handled in a custom XSLT file However, XSLT alone sometimes needs the
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BizTalk Training – Mapping – Muenchian Grouping and Sorting in BizTalk Maps without l...
Sandro Pereira
Oct 28, 2009
One of the most difficult tasks in the BizTalk Mapper is taking a flat list (such as a CSV or a flat SQL result) and grouping it into a header-detail
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BizTalk Advanced Mapping Tips – Inline XSLT – Selecting distinct nodes (grouping)
Sandro Pereira
Sep 14, 2009
One of the more challenging things to do in XSL 10 was getting a distinct list of values from a set of nodes There is no simple syntax for writing this type
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BizTalk Document Mapping – Mass Copy Functoid
Sandro Pereira
Jul 20, 2009
Mapping large XML documents field by field can be tedious and error-prone When you have two schemas with identical sub-structures, the Mass Copy Functoid is
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BizTalk Document Mapping – Value Mapping Functoid and Value Mapping (Flattening) Functoid
Sandro Pereira
Jul 20, 2009
The Advanced Functoids category in the BizTalk Mapper contains two tools that look almost identical: Value Mapping and Value Mapping (Flattening) While they
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BizTalk Document Mapping – Organizing Maps
Sandro Pereira
Jul 20, 2009
As any BizTalk developer knows, what starts as a simple "drag-and-drop" map can quickly spiral into a "spaghetti" of links that is impossible to debug When
