Using XPath

XPath provides an alternative method to ESQL for entering expressions in the property fields of specific built-in nodes.

About this task

In addition to ESQL as a message transformation language, IBM® Integration Bus supports an alternative expression grammar in property fields. For more information, see ESQL-to-XPath mapping table.

You can use ESQL or XPath expressions in built-in nodes, within your message flows, to query or update message trees that are specified as accessible, and that you expect to be processed by a given node.

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