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How to Insert an Any Element or Any Attribute Node

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BizTalk Editor supports two types of any nodes: Any Element and Any Attribute. These nodes allow you to create locations within your schema that correspond to locations within the corresponding instance messages where you do not know what elements or attributes will appear. For detailed information about how these nodes are interpreted when processing instance messages, refer directly to information about the XML Schema definition (XSD) language on the Web. For links to this information, see XSD Resources on the Web.

Insert an Any Element node or an Any Attribute node

  1. In the schema tree view, select the Record node into which you want to insert the Any Element node or the Any Attribute node.

  2. On the BizTalk menu, point to Insert Schema Node, and then click Any Element or Any Attribute, as appropriate.

Important

Setting the Process Contents property to Lax for Any Element or Any Attribute nodes may not work correctly. To pass validation on Any Element or Any Attribute nodes, set the property to Skip. More details on this property in the UI guidance and developers API namespace reference.

To create a map that contains Any Element or Any Attribute nodes, you must use either the Mass Copy functoid or the Scripting functoid (with Inline XSLT or Inline XSLT Call Template) to perform the mapping for such nodes, or simply not map those nodes.

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