Comments on: Dealing with cXML based messages in BizTalk

By: Nirav

Nirav — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:14:40 +0000

Richard,

I have used same xsd for validating example xml comes with cXML but my validator serves me an error, I will really thankfull to you if you can share your xsd to save my time.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:06:23 +0000

@Yossi: Great comment. I considered that but in this case I know the message size and I have a rough idea of the volume that I’ll receive. Based on that I decided to make it as simple as possible for now. If I however should be fully able to reuse this in any scenario I really should try and get to that. That’ll be my next post

By: Yossi Dahan

Yossi Dahan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:54:46 +0000

Hi Richard, great post.

The only thing I would say, at the risk of stating the obvious, is that the code you’ve posted reads the entire message to memory in order to run the regex to remove the DTD declaration.

This is not necessarily a problem for small messages, or for a low volume of messages, but is not best practice.

It might be worth taking the extra day or two it should take to write it in a streaming fashion so that you don’t actually have to read the message at all.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:34:31 +0000

@Nick: Yes, it’s very strange they haven’t updated that. Your work saved me many hours. Thanks again!

By: Nick Heppleston

Nick Heppleston — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:51:26 +0000

Hey Richard, pleased that the cXML schema was of use – your scenario was exactly why I added the schemas to my website (I’m actually quite surprised that the cXML working group haven’t released a cXML XSD, given that DTD’s are now depreciated).

Nick.