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IowaWorkflow · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:10 am Post subject:

We are testing a scenario where an activity makes a call to our UPES to run a java plugin. The plugin contains logic to look at the incoming XML, and if certain tags that are needed in the output XML are not in the input, the plugin will add the missing tags to the output XML. For example, suppose the incoming plugin XML looks like this:

<PROCESS_NAME>Contract 12345</PROCESS_NAME>
<PROCESS_TEMPLATE>DELIVERY</TOP_LEVEL_PROCESS_TEMPLATE>
<CLIENT_NUMBER>22222</CLIENT_NUMBER>

The plugin determines that it needs to add a client name tag to the output XML. Does Workflow care if the order of the tags are changed when they are fed back to Workflow out of the plugin, so they look like this:

<CLIENT_NUMBER>22222</CLIENT_NUMBER>
<CLIENT_NAME>John Doe</CLIENT_NAME>
<PROCESS_NAME>Contract 12345</PROCESS_NAME>
<PROCESS_TEMPLATE>DELIVERY</TOP_LEVEL_PROCESS_TEMPLATE>

We are wanting to know if we need to add intelligence to the plugin so that is builds output XML tags in a specific order (such as building the output tags in the same order as they reside in the Workflow input/output data containers).

Thanks