BIZTALK SCHEMA

WHAT IS BIZTALK SCHEMA

BizTalk is an integration technology and it basically connects

different partner. Now different partner can send the message in
different format. E.g. one partner can send the message in JSON
format and receiver can accept the flat file. However BizTalk
understand only xml format and if partners are using another format
than first it needs to be converted to xml format.
In order to understand the xml format by BizTalk, we need
to define the structure of the xml message. E.g. what will be the root
node name, what will be the elements name, its data type, attributes
name , structure of the message (which element will fall under which
node) etc. Schema does this work for BizTalk. Schema defines the
structure of the messages which are being received in BizTalk and
sent to partner. BizTalk uses XML Schema Definitions (XSDs) to
describe the xml message.
TYPE OF SCHEMA
1) XML Schema
2) Flat file Schema
3) Envelope Schema
4) Property Schema
XML Schema:
 If BizTalk has to receive an xml message then the
schema which defines the structure of this xml
message is called as xml schema. We can see here
the schema is defining the xml messages, name of
the elements their data types.
There are several properties of the schema which
needs to be set like target namespace etc
Flat file Schema:

If BizTalk has to receive or send flat files then schema generated to define
the structure of the flat file is called Flat file schema.
Envelope Schema:
If partner wants to send more than one message having same
structure in one shot e.g. partner wants to send the multiple
student details in one message then we call that message as
Envelope. In BizTalk we can de batch the Envelope message and
send one message at a time to BizTalk. This can be achieved by
envelop schema.  In order to create the envelope schema we
need to set some schema property. Envelope property needs to
be set to true and in Body xpath expression, need to provide
body path of the document which is repeating structure. Both
Flat file and Xml Schema can be treated as envelop schema and
we can set property once double click on the schema and see
property.
PROPERTY SCHEMA:

To understand the property schema, first we should know what property promotion is. Suppose we are
receiving and xml message having student percentage and based on percentage we want to route the
message to different department. In such cases we can promote the age from the message. The Age coming
from xml instance messages is coming as content of the message. In order to route the message based on
age, this property should be present in context of the message. Moving the content of message to context is
called the property promotion and when we do so the promoted element is added to one Schema which takes
care to move the values from content to context. This schema is called property schema.
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