Hi,

I had a query regarding flat file positional schema, I have a input file

001ABC

010ABCDEFGHI

010ABCDEFGHIJKL

first record:record_001, has a tag identifier:001 and has only one element field of length 3

Second Record:record_010 has a tag identifier:010 and has two field elements of length 3 each

Third Record:Record_010_CD has a tag identifier:010 and has 4 field elements of length 3 each.

Note: All the records are repeating(Min occurs:0 and Max Occurs Unbounded)

Can we have same tag identifiers for second and third record?

Please suggest.

Thanks in advance.

Ranjana

• Edited by Ranjana_Torreti 39 minutes ago

If you can live with the 2nd and 3rd record being the same XML Record, with the 3rd element being optional, you can do the following:

Here is some sample input (can't be sure this is the complete FF-structure, since you did not post a full message, or at least I assume you didn't):

001ABC
001ABC
010ABCDEFGHI
010ABCDEFGHIJKL
010ABCDEFGHI
010ABCDEFGHIJKL
010ABCDEFGHIJKL
010ABCDEFGHIJKL

Note: My FFSchema assumes that the document ends with a carriage return. Change Child Order from Postfix to Infix if this is not the case.

By using this FFSchema:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<xs:schema xmlns="http://BizTalk_Server_Project2._001FF" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" targetNamespace="http://BizTalk_Server_Project2._001FF" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xs:annotation>
    <xs:appinfo>
      <b:schemaInfo standard="Flat File" root_reference="MyRoot" default_pad_char=" " pad_char_type="char" count_positions_by_byte="false" parser_optimization="speed" lookahead_depth="3" suppress_empty_nodes="false" generate_empty_nodes="true" allow_early_termination="true" early_terminate_optional_fields="false" allow_message_breakup_of_infix_root="false" compile_parse_tables="false" />
      <schemaEditorExtension:schemaInfo namespaceAlias="b" extensionClass="Microsoft.BizTalk.FlatFileExtension.FlatFileExtension" standardName="Flat File" xmlns:schemaEditorExtension="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/SchemaEditorExtensions" />
    </xs:appinfo>
  </xs:annotation>
  <xs:element name="MyRoot">
    <xs:annotation>
      <xs:appinfo>
        <b:recordInfo structure="delimited" preserve_delimiter_for_empty_data="true" suppress_trailing_delimiters="false" sequence_number="1" child_delimiter_type="hex" child_delimiter="0x0D 0x0A" child_order="postfix" />
      </xs:appinfo>
    </xs:annotation>
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:annotation>
          <xs:appinfo>
            <b:groupInfo sequence_number="0" />
          </xs:appinfo>
        </xs:annotation>
        <xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" name="Record001">
          <xs:annotation>
            <xs:appinfo>
              <b:recordInfo sequence_number="1" structure="positional" preserve_delimiter_for_empty_data="true" suppress_trailing_delimiters="false" tag_name="001" />
            </xs:appinfo>
          </xs:annotation>
          <xs:complexType>
            <xs:sequence>
              <xs:annotation>
                <xs:appinfo>
                  <b:groupInfo sequence_number="0" />
                </xs:appinfo>
              </xs:annotation>
              <xs:element name="Field1" type="xs:string">
                <xs:annotation>
                  <xs:appinfo>
                    <b:fieldInfo sequence_number="1" justification="left" pos_offset="3" pos_length="3" />
                  </xs:appinfo>
                </xs:annotation>
              </xs:element>
            </xs:sequence>
          </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
        <xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" name="Record010">
          <xs:annotation>
            <xs:appinfo>
              <b:recordInfo sequence_number="2" structure="positional" preserve_delimiter_for_empty_data="true" suppress_trailing_delimiters="false" tag_name="010" />
            </xs:appinfo>
          </xs:annotation>
          <xs:complexType>
            <xs:sequence>
              <xs:annotation>
                <xs:appinfo>
                  <b:groupInfo sequence_number="0" />
                </xs:appinfo>
              </xs:annotation>
              <xs:element name="Field1" type="xs:string">
                <xs:annotation>
                  <xs:appinfo>
                    <b:fieldInfo sequence_number="1" justification="left" pos_offset="3" pos_length="3" />
                  </xs:appinfo>
                </xs:annotation>
              </xs:element>
              <xs:element name="Field2" type="xs:string">
                <xs:annotation>
                  <xs:appinfo>
                    <b:fieldInfo sequence_number="2" justification="left" pos_length="3" />
                  </xs:appinfo>
                </xs:annotation>
              </xs:element>
              <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="Field3" type="xs:string">
                <xs:annotation>
                  <xs:appinfo>
                    <b:fieldInfo sequence_number="3" justification="left" pos_length="3" />
                  </xs:appinfo>
                </xs:annotation>
              </xs:element>
            </xs:sequence>
          </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

I get the following XML output:

<MyRoot xmlns="http://BizTalk_Server_Project2._001FF">
  <Record001 xmlns="">
    <Field1>ABC</Field1>
  </Record001>
  <Record001 xmlns="">
    <Field1>ABC</Field1>
  </Record001>
  <Record010 xmlns="">
    <Field1>ABC</Field1>
    <Field2>DEF</Field2>
    <Field3>GHI</Field3>
  </Record010>
  <Record010 xmlns="">
    <Field1>ABC</Field1>
    <Field2>DEF</Field2>
    <Field3>GHIJKL</Field3>
  </Record010>
  <Record010 xmlns="">
    <Field1>ABC</Field1>
    <Field2>DEF</Field2>
    <Field3>GHI</Field3>
  </Record010>
  <Record010 xmlns="">
    <Field1>ABC</Field1>
    <Field2>DEF</Field2>
    <Field3>GHIJKL</Field3>
  </Record010>
  <Record010 xmlns="">
    <Field1>ABC</Field1>
    <Field2>DEF</Field2>
    <Field3>GHIJKL</Field3>
  </Record010>
  <Record010 xmlns="">
    <Field1>ABC</Field1>
    <Field2>DEF</Field2>
    <Field3>GHIJKL</Field3>
  </Record010>
</MyRoot>

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