Receiver Determination xpath condition syntax

[Former Member]

Is there any functional difference between these two Xpath conditional statements in a Receiver Determination...

/ABCD/XYZ/CODE = 'A123'

/ABCD/XYZ/CODE = A123

...I've seen the value done both ways, with and without the single quotes and I'm not sure if there is a reason to favor one way over the other.

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2]

if the element datatype is string you might have to use quote and for numeric you dont need.

[Former Member]

The element is defined as a string, so I would expect that it would require the value to be enclosed in single quotes, but it seems to work either way. I wonder if there is some implicit casting to string happening in the PI Xpath parser that makes it work either way.

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2]

Right, I agree the behavior with respect to String. If we try for other data types like integers, float, decimals or Double , we might have to use without quotes for sure.

[naveen_chichili]

Hi William,

I agree with Bhaskar's Reply ... Also please check the below link for ref..

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi711/helpdata/en/48/d25f650d7d035be10000000a42189b/content.htm

Regards,

Naveen