BizTalk Mapper - Looping multiple nodes to map to a single node in a single row (flat file)

Question

Hi everybody,
I'm still new in developing BizTalk app and require some help in this one problem. Appreciate your time and input to help me on this.
Basically I have an XML document as input and a flat file as output. Example for input is as per below. The "Contact" node's maxOccurs here is set to unbounded and could be multiple. (phone, fax, website, telex ...)
<root>
<CustomerName>Company A</CustomerName>
<Contact>
<Type>Phone</Type>
<Locator>03566789</Locator>
<Type>Phone</Type>
<Locator>03566790</Locator>
<Type>Fax</Type>
<Locator>03566795</Locator>
<Type>Telex</Type>
<Locator>03566798</Locator>
<Type>Website</Type>
<Locator>www.companyA.com</Locator>
</Contact>
</root>
The expected output in XML would look like below. The final outcome would be a csv file. Strictly Phone 1, phone 2, fax and telex, the rest would be ignored.
<root>
<CustomerName>Company A</CustomerName>
<Phone1>03566789</Phone1>
<Phone2>03566790</Phone2>
<Fax>03566795</Fax>
<Telex>03566798</Telex>
</root>
Example of expected output result (csv file): CompanyName;Phone1;Phone2;Fax;Telex;
In our case here: Company A;03566789;03566790;03566795;03566798;
Another example could be: Company B;036778911;;036778912;; if only 1 phone number and 1 fax number provided.
I've used Table Looping and Table Extractor and nearly got the desired result except that it is represented in multiple rows instead of one: Example:
Company A;03566789;;;
Company A;;03566790;;;
Company A;;;03566795;;
Company A;;;;03566798;
Any idea how to do the mapping? I'm kind of stuck here and it sounds like an easy problem but i could not find any example to the solution that I need here. Table looping and table extractor is ok to map from single node flat file to multiple nodes but not
the reverse like in this example.
rgds,
sportivo

Answer 1

Hi,
Please refer to below links where similar issue has been answered.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/biztalkgeneral/thread/ecdff241-6795-4a95-bad7-48fca4410dfb
http://www.epinaki.com/2011/05/other-options-to-using-biztalk-table-looping-functoid-par-i/
I hope this helps you.
Thanks With Regards,
Shailesh Kawade
MCTS BizTalk Server
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