February 2005 Entries
I was reading this article http://devresource.hp.com/d... and it got me thinking about how I have been designing schemas in BizTalk… Yes I know I can already hear your groans about the “BizTalk XSD schema editor”. Well contrary to popular believe you don’t need to use monolithic structures in BizTalk schema design. From the BizTalk Server 2004 book… p78 – Building Message Specifications – Imports – “Only...
I ran into an interesting problem this afternoon with one of my BizTalk soltuions that I was porting to SP1. The problem was fairly generic so I thought I would share it. In my solution I had a map that had two schema's on the left-hand side (described below) : <xs:import schemaLocation="schema1" /><xs:import schemaLocation="schema2" namespace="http://schema2ns" /> The first schema was a trading partners schema (which I didn't have control over) and it didn't have a namespace... After...