Encode Base64 function strips off XML Tags in the payload | Oracle Integration cloud

Today I was working to write XML file where the FTP adapter was assigned an opaque schema. Due to the opaque schema, I used encodebase64() to write the XML contents to the FTP directory but I observed that the xml tags were strippped off in the payload.

This is a known issue. We have to do the following steps to perserve the XML tags:

1. Use ora:getContentAsString() xpath function to assign the XML contents as string to a local variable.
2. Use the encodebase64() to encode the variable response and map to opaqueElement.

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