JDeveloper BPEL Designer Tool: Transformation Question

Hello,
I am prototyping a small web service orchestration demo.
I have 3 Schema Elements - Request, IndividualResponse, and CombinedResponse
I invoke 3 web service invocations in parallel - each of which takes a Request and returns an IndividualResponse
I need to populate a single CombinedResponse with the contents of the 3 IndividualResponses.
When I try a transformation node (to map an IndividualResponse to a CombinedReponse), the IndividualResponses overwrite each other's information in a single node within the CombinedResponse. I want the contents of the IndividualResponses to go into separate nodes within the CombinedResponse.
Any ideas on how to do this in the Oracle JDeveloper BPEL Designer Tool?
Thanks!
-SN

Transformation by definition converts one xml format to another. What you need to do is perform multiple assigns to copy the individual responses to the combined response.
--Nizam

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