Issue - 90 - Assignment of external data into a variable

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Issue - 90 - Assignment of external data into a variable

Status: open
Date added: 9 Jan 2004
Submitter: Kristofer Agren
Date submitted: 09 January 2004
Document: BPEL specification
Description: The current assignment model allows for assigning literal data entered in directly under
the <from> element. In practice, it may be desirable to have an external file/location where the
data is maintained, which will allow for reuse if the same set of data is to be utilized in different
business processes. The external file must be a valid XML document.
Submitter's proposal: I propose that this is solved by adding another form of the <form> element that can accept an
external location uri and an optional query string:

<assign>
	<copy>
		<from location="uri" query="queryString"?/>
		<to.../>
	</copy>
</assign>

Changes: 9 Jan 2004 - new issue

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