XI/PI: Introduction to Context Handling in Message Mapping

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Published on Wednesday, 22 July 2009 21:39

Written by Riyaz

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Context handling is an important technique to map complex scenarios in XI. This article introduces the basics of context handling using a simple example.

Message mapping in XI works by means of queues. A queue contains an entire XML instance of the source message. Depending on the hierarchy in the source message, different nodes and elements can be categorized into different contexts. All the nodes and elements that belong to the same parent node are said to be in the same context. Hence, the nodes and elements that belong to different parent nodes have to be separated by a context change.

XI provides various node functions for context handling during message mapping. Let us understand the concept of contexts using a simple example...

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