Using a File Adapter in a BPEL process

Hi,
I am new to BPEL and currently working on migrating my current integration to a SOA architecture using BPEL processes. The integration requires a file to be read and i plan to use a fileadapter . This file to be read is of fixed length type and i see in the file adapater you can generate an xsd for fixed length file. however i need to specify the range for every column that will be read.
Eg : Column1 1-10
Column2 11-25
Is there a way i can achive this? From what i see now i can only specify the length as a number like 1,2,3,4,5
Thanks

In your case, you have to give "10, 25" in field positions which tokenize the columns 1-10 and 11-25.
--Prasanna

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