An empty container element

I have a BPM scenario like the following
1: Receive Sync (opens S/A Bridge)
2: Transform (split 1:n mapping. Only one interface will get created though depending on source content)
3: Sync Send (Send result 1 of previouse transform step if it has been created)
3: Sync Send (Send result 2of previouse transform step if it has been created)
4: Transform (transforms sync send result to response message of original sync message received in step 1)
5: Send (Closes S/A Bridge)
My issue is this... my sync send step keeps throwing an error saying the following
"An empty container element was specified when sending"
The problem is that I have checked and rechecked all the IM and MM's and they work with the inbound payload which I pull from the BPE monitoring. I checked the containers and they all seem to have the right values.
I cant understand why I am getting an empty result from my mapping?
By the way I have searched this forum all day and have found many similar issues but none that seem to have been resolved in a dinitive fashion so please don't just snd me links to these threads unless they solve the issue...
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Alex Ong

Ok I have attempted with the fork but I still get the same error...
The problem is that even though in the BPE monitoring it is telling me that the transformation step is successful I am still getting an empty mapping result...
All of the interfaces specified in the IP are the ones use in the Mappings so I really dont understand what is going wrong here...
Any ideas anyone?
Oh by the way I am doing 1:N mapping and i have set both source and target messages from 0 to 1.
Is there something else I should do in the transformation step to stipulate 1:N mapping?
What could be the reason for this?
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Alex Ong

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