Can XI Message be mapped to a flat file attachment in Mail adapter

Hi guys,
I have a requirement, where I have ECC system seding a XI message to XI.
Now XI has to convert this to a flat file may be tab delimited and send this as an attachment in email using receiver mail adapter.
I want to avoid BPM and make it simple.
Appreciate any help on this topic.
Regards
Sujan

Hi,
Here are some mapping examples.
/people/rahul.nawale2/blog/2006/07/18/java-mapping-an-alternate-way-of-reading-a-csv-file
/people/alessandro.guarneri/blog/2007/03/25/xi-java-mapping-helper-dom
/people/carlosivan.prietorubio/blog/2007/12/21/implementing-a-java-mapping-in-sap-pi
/people/venkataramanan.parameswaran/blog/2006/12/12/java-mapping-to-handle-flat-files-in-sap-xi
/people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/29/java-mapping-part-iii
/people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/29/java-mapping-part-ii
/people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/29/java-mapping-part-ii
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/02/25/simple-java-code-in-graphical-mapping--xi
Vishal

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So that works for having the two, shorter header records (structure is positional) before the section of repeating records. Now I just have to figure out how to get the schema to handle the two, shorter trailer (or footer, whatever you prefer) records after
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the error I get in VS when I test the map is [BTW I changed the element names in the schema which is why you don't see INVOICE in the error]
When I declare the last element as being positional with a character length of 10 I get the error:
Error 18 Native Parsing Error: Unexpected end of stream while looking for:
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