Consuming XML string using Orchestration web service

[zorrinn]

Hi

I am a newbie to the Microsoft world. I am creating a BizTalk Orchestration and tryng to publish it as a web service.

I want to send an XML string to this service and I need the orchestration to strip out things from this XML string and save the string and the stripped out data to the database.

How can I do this? I am mainly confused as to how to send an XML string to the Orchestration. Please help.

 

[zorrinn]

I have an "Operation" that where the request consumes a message of type System.Xml.XmlDocument and the response sends out a message of the same type.

In the client, I am calling this web method and passing the XmlDocument object, which contains the xml string.

In the orchestration I want to take this XmlDocument and compare it with a schema I have. Then transform the incoming schema to another schema(which I know can be done with a map), then convert back this to System.Xml.XmlDocument object and send it back.

Can anyone help me with this?? I am very desperate.

 

[philhege]

Why use an orchestration? Why not just code the web service in VB.NET? It'll do everything you want the orchestration to do.

Just a tip: you can extract the underlying XML for your map and save it off as a standalone XSL. Then you can load it in the XML doc object without depending on the map and channel process.

HTH,

Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK

http://www.iimak.com

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