XML Declaration

Question

Hi,

 

I have a question regarding the standard XML Assembler.
I have this in my outgoing XML : <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'>
But I need to strip off the XML declaration, so I changed the setting in my PipelineComponent (Add XML Declaration) to false. And as requested it strips off that <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'>.

 The question now is if there is a possibility to keep the XML Declaration but only strip off the enconding part of the XML Declaration? So I have something like this <?xml version='1.0' >.

Regards,

Glenn

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Glenn Colpaert - MCTS BizTalk Server - Blog : http://blog.codit.eu

Answer 1

You could make a custom pipeline component and implement it on the send pipeline after the assembler stage and have it replace the encoding with nothing using regular expressions:

 

Search: (?<=\<\?xml version="1.0" )encoding="UTF-8"( )?(?=\?\>)

Replace: (Empty String)

Note: It should only replace UTF-8 instances since UTF-8 is the default encoding and all other encodings should be specified

Morten la Cour

Answer 2

It can be done easily with Symbol preprocessor pipeline component (See MSDN) 

make sure your RegEx (or several simple replaced string) covers all possible variations of the declaration. 

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Leonid Ganeline [BizTalk MVP] BizTalk and 0MQ (ZeroMQ)

Answer 3

Thx for clearing this out.
If there is no standard way of getting only the prolog, a custom pipelinecomponent will do...

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Glenn Colpaert - MCTS BizTalk Server - Blog : http://blog.codit.eu