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jefflowrey · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject:

You can't magically RCD a tree from XMLNS to MRM.

You need to reparse it. This means you need to ASBITSTREAM and then CREATE FIELD... PARSE.

This is expensive, and usually unnecessary.

It seems like you have a) an input message, that is described by a Message Definition (an MRM model), b) some data you need to extract from some database, c) an output message, that is described by a Message Definition.

It seems that you should work with those, entirely. And not worry about XMLNS, and not worry about Attributes and Elements.

Your concerns about "causing problems in the future" are valid, to an extent. But you seem like you're trying to code yourself in knots to avoid having to make minor changes later - when something major like the interface changes.

You always have to code directly to a specific interface at some point. You always have to change code somewhere, when a specific interface changes.

I'm trying to wade through all this to figure out what you actually want to do.

I think you have to accept that you'll have to make at least some changes to your code if the names of things you need to send to Notes changes.

The best way I can suggest to minimize this is to create a variable of some kind - perhaps a User Defined Property, perhaps another database table that gets read into a local tree - that contains a list of valid fields in the Notes DB. Then you can loop over the fieldnames of the input record, and only add the things that have names contained in that list.
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