WAIT STEP issue in a BPM

Hi all,
We have a following message (as a result of a transformation) FECHA is an xsd:date and HORA is an xsd:time. The cardinality of every elements is 1..1:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <MT_Retraso_Entrada_Wait>
<row>
<FECHA>2006-10-27</FECHA>
<HORA>15:00:00.0</HORA>
</row>
</MT_Retraso_Entrada_Wait>
And we assing this values to the wait step but it doesn't work.
Has anybody any idea?
Thanks

HI SUDHEER,
Many thnaks for your help, But it is working with this value as constant.
I tried to remove the 0 but still not working is not picking up this values, the desired date and time in the wait step are empty.
How are you using the same MT just in case?.
Many thanks for your help.
Regards Noelia
Message was edited by: Noelia Fernandez
Message was edited by: Noelia Fernandez

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