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Its often a requirement to perform content based routing in an ESB. This means you route messages around your service bus based on the message properties or the content of the messages. When integrating systems across language boundaries its common to use XML as a universal message format; so XPath is an ideal tool to perform content based routing and transformation.

We support a high performance XPath based routing and transformation mechanism designed for high performance and power.

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The following is an example routing and transformation template. Firstly we reuse the XSLT basd transform component.

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Then we provide a file in XSLT format, with some JBI extensions

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In the above example, depending on the value of the @id attribute, we invoke different services.

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The following example shows a number of services being invoked one after the other, using optionally different properties. In each case the original XML message is used as the body of the new inbound request.

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Splitting up an XML message into multiple service invocations

This example demonstrates a message being split into multiple different sections of XML which are then invoked on different services.

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Why use Xalan?

We use Xalan to implement our XPath based router and transformation engine. The main reasons for doing so are

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