Web Services Guide

10.2.2

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Port and Hierarchy Level Relationships

When you map input ports to the SOAP message hierarchy, you maintain a relationship between an input group and a SOAP message hierarchy level. For example, you might have two input groups, Department and Employee.

The Department input group receives the following rows:

Dept_num	Name	Location
101	HR	New York
102	Product	California

The Employee input group receives the following rows:

Dept_num	Employee
101	Alice
101	Bob
102	Carol
102	Dave

Map the department number in the Employee group as a foreign key that establishes the relationship between the Department and the Employee group. The department number occurs in the department hierarchy level, but not the employee level.

The SOAP message contains the following XML structure:

<department>
   <dept_num>101</dept_num>
   <name>HR</name>
   <location>New York</location>

   <employee>
      <name>Alice</name>
   </employee>

   <employee>
      <name>Bob</name>
   </employee>
</department>

<department>
   <dept_num>102</dept_num>
   <name>Product</name>
   <location>California</location>

   <employee>
      <name>Carol</name>
   </employee>

   <employee>
      <name>Dave</name>
   </employee>

</department>

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