BPEL Processes Fail Under Load With "Error in <assign> Expression: XPath Expression Returns Zero Node" (Doc ID 433846.1)

Last updated on APRIL 23, 2019

Applies to:

Symptoms

When a large number of BPEL processes are being processed in BPEL engine, some processes fail
with the following error,

Error in <assign> expression: <to> value is empty at line "65":
The XPath expression:
"/child::ns5:FuncAck/attribute::GatewayDocID/attribute::GatewayDocID"
returns zero node, when applied to document below:

The correct Xpath expression should be "/child::ns5:FuncAck/attribute::GatewayDocID"

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Cause

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