Introduction

Using XPath inside Orchestrations is a powerful and simple feature with BizTalk Server. BizTalk only supports XPath 1.0 and that is something you need to be aware of. This short article will provide you all resource to efficiently make use of XPath within BizTalk orchestrations.

Blogs

Most information on XPath and BizTalk orchestrations can be found in blogs:

• Common XPATH Examples, Questions, Issues with Biztalk
• Using XPath Inside BizTalk Orchestrations
• BizTalk Working With XPath – XPath 1.0 Function Library Quick Reference
• XPath – the hidden language of BizTalk?
• BizTalk 2010 Recipes : Orchestrations - Using XPath Queries on Messages
• BizTalk Server: Handling decimal types with the xpath() Function
• BizTalk: xpath: How to work with empty and Null elements in Orchestration

See Also

• MSDN: Using XPaths in Message Assignments
• MSDN: XPath Functions