The Assign is used for data-manipulation including initializing and updating a variable. It is composed of a set of one or more operations that can be added and/or edited in the Assign toolbar. Configuring an Assign can include the following tasks:
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Assign operations include Assign, Copy, Delete, Insert, and Replace. Every Assign is composed of one or more of these operations, which you can add to the Assign using the Assign toolbar.
In addition, each operation has its own configuration dialog/editor.
Note: | The Assign operations in the Split-Join editor are essentially the same as the corresponding actions in the WorkSpace Studio Message Flow editor. However, one important difference is that when you are using the XQuery\XSLT or XPath Editors to edit expressions in the Split-Join context, only variables and namespaces internal to the Split-Join are available. |
A brief explanation of each operation follows:
For more information on configuring the Assign, see Split-Join Properties View - Assign.
Note: | Unlike the ALSB delete, only an XPath expression may be deleted in a Split-Join, not the entire variable. For more information on configuring the Delete operation, see Delete Action Dialog. |
For more information on configuring the Insert operation, see Insert Action Dialog.
For more information on configuring the Replace operation, see Replace Action Dialog.
Adding an operation to the Assign involves the following steps:
Note that you can edit a configured operation by double-clicking the operation in the Assign Operations table or selecting an operation and clicking the Edit button in the toolbar.
The Copy operation allows you to copy the information specified by an XPath 1.0 expression from a source document to a destination document. It is an operation unique to the Split-Join editor. Adding a Copy operation to the Assign involves the following steps:
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