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Colon as separator and name spaces
You can not use colons, for example my:name, in the blocks and fields in your XMLIN Event. This is because the XPath engine used with StoryTeller treats colons as name space separators. However, as name spaces are not supported by StreamServe, the XPath expression does not return anything in this case.
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Or, you can use the boolean stIsEmpty() script function that returns true for an empty object. It can be used both in before and after scripts.
For more information, see the StreamServe Scripting reference.
OpenText StreamServe 5.6 Updated: 2013-03-01