Rules and Conditions for XML Documents

When running a business process that processes XML documents, you must use XPath to describe rules and conditions for processing the XML document.

Specifically, you must create XPath expressions that:

• Identify particular elements (or nodes) and their positions in both the input and output documents.
• Identify particular elements in the input document for copying into an output document or for further processing.
• Define any constraints of name-value pairs for elements.
• Calculate values that depend on other values.

The following table shows sample names and rules using simple syntax:

Name

Rule

rule1

X>10

rule2

X<=10

rule3

X<10

For information about assigning rules that require complex syntax, see Defining and Assigning Rules and Conditions.