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  1. Preface
  2. Welcome to Informatica Process Developer
  3. Using Guide Developer for the First Time
  4. Getting Started with Informatica Process Developer
  5. About Interfaces Service References and Local WSDL
  6. Planning Your BPEL Process
  7. Participants
  8. Implementing a BPMN Task or Event in BPEL
  9. Implementing a BPMN Gateway or Control Flow
  10. Using Variables
  11. Attachments
  12. Using Links
  13. Data Manipulation
  14. Compensation
  15. Correlation
  16. What is Correlation
  17. What is a Correlation Set
  18. Creating Message Properties and Property Aliases
  19. Adding a Correlation Set
  20. Deleting a Correlation Set
  21. Adding Correlations to an Activity
  22. Rules for Declaring and Using Correlation Sets
  23. Correlation Sets and Engine-Managed Correlation
  24. Event Handling
  25. Fault Handling
  26. Simulating and Debugging
  27. Deploying Your Processes
  28. BPEL Unit Testing
  29. Creating POJO and XQuery Custom Functions
  30. Custom Service Interactions
  31. Process Exception Management
  32. Creating Reports for Process Server and Central
  33. Business Event Processing
  34. Process Central Forms and Configuration
  35. Building a Process with a System Service
  36. Human Tasks
  37. BPEL Faults and Reports

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Selecting XPath or XQuery for Expression Building

Selecting XPath or XQuery for Expression Building

The default language is XQuery, which is a superset of XPath. Process Developer projects contain an XQuery nature, including an XQuery editor for writing custom function XQuery modules.
The following table provides a brief comparison between XPath and XQuery as used in BPEL data mapping:
XPath
XQuery
Recommended if portability is an issue. Language is supported by WS-BPEL 2.0
Process Developer extension for BPEL
May be more suitable for multiple-part message variables
Builds large documents easily from a single-part variable
Limited to expression evaluation of one document node at a time
Allows manipulation of data from an entire XML document
Better at date handling, with many date functions
Location path expressions resolve to a string
Queries generate an XML result
Similar to a SQL-like query language. Easier to iterate over repeating elements with "FLWOR expressions" (FOR, LET, WHERE, ORDER BY, and RETURN) for performing joins
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