BizTalk Orchestrations XPath: Survival Guide

Introduction

Using XPath inside Orchestrations is a powerful and simple feature with BizTalk Server. BizTalk only supports XPath 1.0 and that is something you need to be aware of. This short article will provide you with all resource to efficiently make use of XPath within BizTalk orchestrations.

Blogs

Most information on XPath and BizTalk orchestrations can be found in blogs:

• Common XPATH Examples, Questions, Issues with BizTalk (at archive.org)
• Using XPath Inside BizTalk Orchestrations
• BizTalk Working With XPath – XPath 1.0 Function Library Quick Reference
• XPath – the hidden language of BizTalk?
• BizTalk 2010 Recipes : Orchestrations - Using XPath Queries on Messages
• BizTalk Server: Handling decimal types with the xpath() Function
• BizTalk: xpath: How to work with empty and Null elements in Orchestration
• BizTalk Testing Series - The xpath Function

See Also

Read suggested related topics:

• MSDN: Using XPaths in Message Assignments
• MSDN: XPath Functions
• MSDN Code Samples: Testing XPath queries in .NET with a tool
• Wiki: List of Technologies and Related Topics
• Wiki: Survival Guides Portal

Another important place to find a huge amount of BizTalk related articles is the TechNet Wiki itself. The best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.