XPath in OSB

Question

Folks,
I was testing Expression structure in OSB Assign action where the XML is just raw XML without any any NameSpaces. I was able to get the attribute values out of the XPath, but the element values were coming back as empty ?
For example :-
<ResponseMessage MessageId="1-bbc90" ErrCode="0" ErrMessage="">
     <A>
     <B>
     <Id>1-7MEW8</Id>
</B>
</A>
</ResponseMessage>
was able to extract the ErrCode & ErrMessage values which are just attributes by just doing this
$response/@ErrCode
$response/@ErrMessage
But when doing this :- $response/A/B/Id/text(), just returned empty.
I had to manually add namespace & namespace prefix to the ResponseMessage XML, then was able to do
$response/ns:A/ns:B/ns:Id/text()
Need to understand why OSB Assign Action, when adding expression without using Namespace, doesn't work, is it because the engine is not using just plain XPATH but using XPATH with XQUERY dependency.
Any feedback appreciated.
Regards,
Abhijeet

Answer 1

Hi Abhijeet,
Not sure what you tried, but if I use below XML and in assign action I give X-path as $body/anuj/name/text() then I am able to get the value "It is my name" in the assigned variable.
<soap:Body>
<anuj>
<name>It is my name</name>
</anuj>
</soap:Body>
Did you try something else?
Regards,
Anuj