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    • July 16, 2006 at 9:48 PM #14031
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        Hi BizTalk Gurus

        I’m a newbie at this so I don’t think this will be a tough question.

        I have a master detail schema like:
        [code:1:9dff755f2d]<Order>
        <Item>blah</Item>
        <Item>blahblah</Item>
        <Item>widget</Item>
        </order>[/code:1:9dff755f2d]

        The problem is that the orchestration needs to process each <Item> and that process depends on the value of <Item>. I want to use a decide shape based on the value of <Item>. I’ve read in a tutorial to promote the Item in the schema and then use a decide shape based on that value. When I go to promote the <Item> element, I get an error message saying that I cannot promote a value that occurs multiple times.

        My 2 questions are:
        1) How do you use the Looping element in a orchestration so that I only loop x number of elements passed in?
        2) How do I use a decide shape that filter on the value of <Item>?

        Any help would be greatly appreciated.

        Thanks, Bill N

      • July 17, 2006 at 9:45 AM #14030
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          To loop thru the items you need to create an orchestration variable and set this to the number of item nodes in the message.
          You can then extract the value from Item within the loop using count as an index.

          [code:1:c73a949431]count = xpath(message, \"count(/Order/Item)\");

          loop while count > 0
          itemValue = xpath(message, \"/Order/Item[count]/text()\");
          //decide logic
          count–;[/code:1:c73a949431]

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