<parameters>

Specifies the parameters for another BPL element as a set of name-value pairs.

Syntax

<parameters>
    <parameter name='MAXLEN' value='1024' />
    <parameter name='MINLEN' value='1' /> 
</parameters>

Elements

Element	Purpose
<parameter>	Zero or more <parameter> elements may appear inside the <parameters> container. Each <parameter> element defines one parameter. Each <parameter> element has two attributes, name and value, as described below.

Description

The optional <parameters> element is valid only within <property> or <xslt>. <parameters> defines the parameters for its containing BPL element as a set of name-value pairs:

Within <context>, <parameters> contains the data type parameters for a <property> that you are defining in the business process execution context. There is a detailed explanation of the business process execution context in documentation of the <assign> element.
Within <xslt>, <parameters> contains any XSLT name-value pairs that you wish to pass to the stylesheet that controls the XSLT transformation.

<parameters> does not support any BPL attributes. It is simply a container for zero or more <parameter> element, one for each parameter. You may provide as many <parameter> elements as you wish, but all must appear within the same <parameters> block. For example:

<context>
  <property name='Test' type='%Integer' initialexpression='342' >
    <parameters>
      <parameter name='MAXVAL' value='1000' />
    </parameters>
  </property>
  <property name='Another' type='%String' initialexpression='Yo' >
    <parameters>
      <parameter name='MAXLEN' value='2' />
      <parameter name='MINLEN' value='1' />
    </parameters>
  </property>
</context>

<parameter> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Value
name attribute	Required. The name of this parameter: Within <property>, name identifies a data type parameter for the property. For valid names, see “Parameters” in the chapter “Data Types” Defining and Using Classes. Within <xslt>, name must be the name of a valid XSLT parameter.	A string of one or more characters.
value attribute	Optional. The value to assign to the parameter.	A string of one or more characters.

Attribute

Description

Value

name attribute

Required. The name of this parameter:

Within <property>, name identifies a data type parameter for the property. For valid names, see “Parameters” in the chapter “Data Types” Defining and Using Classes.
Within <xslt>, name must be the name of a valid XSLT parameter.

A string of one or more characters.

value attribute

Optional. The value to assign to the parameter.

A string of one or more characters.

<parameters>

Syntax

Elements

Description

<parameter> Attributes

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