Create empty tag

[former_member229310]

Hello Gurus,

I need to generate below mapping for a field in mapping.

<filed></field>

If i pass a constant blank value then after mapping the output shown is  </filed>  which is excluded by target system.

Hence target system are requesting to send start tag and end tag without any value.

Thanks in advance.

[former_member802575]

Hi,

<filed></field> and </filed> are both the same. if u want same <filed></filed> you need to write Udf to achieve that on.

Thanks

srikanth

[Former Member]

<filed></field> and </filed> are both the same. Your target techee would know it 🙂

[rodrigoalejandro_pertierr]

as i suguest in my first post. mapthe field with a value (space, character,etc)

<field></field> and </field>is the same for fields with null values

Regards

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2]

This is my few cents ...

If the XML tag element has value the syntax  is

<field>some value </field>

If the element has no value then you should generate the tag element as

<field/>

so if you send the tag element syntax has <field/>  all the xml parsers should accept.  This is syntax rule.  Even if you do mapping or any sort of manipulations it will pass only  as <field/>

But if you send as </field>  then it is wrong... You are missing the start tag.. and see where you miss it.

Hope that helps.

[manigram]

Hi,

Try mapWithDefault node function

Regards,

Mani

[markangelo_dihiansan]

Hello Hari,

Can you right-click on the payload and choose view source? If it is displaying as </filed> then it is the content of your XML. What you can do to transform it to <filed></filed> is to use Java/XSLT mapping. Even if in the view source the field is <filed></filed>, it could still display as </filed> in some browsers (e.g moni).

Hope this helps,
Mark

[Muniyappan]

Hi Hari,

i believe both are same.

<filed></field>

</filed>

Did you check below link?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7238254/xml-what-is-this-null-or-empty-element

else you can use mapWithDefault to pass some constant value to target field.

Regards,

Muniyappan.

[rodrigoalejandro_pertierr]

hi

you have to know that <filed></field> is the same as </field> so if you need to generate the node to be sent to tha backend maybe you can think about send an space in the field for example.

Regards

Rodrigo