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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">> produced an attribute with the following values [EmptyAttributeValue{value=NULL_VALUE}]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><</span><span class="s2">AttributeRule</span><span class="s3">
</span><span class="s4">attributeID</span><span class="s3">=</span><i>"attribute-name"</i><span class="s1">></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="color:black">                                   
</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black">  </span>
</span><span class="s1"><</span>PermitValueRule<span class="s3"> </span><span class="s4">xsi:type</span><span class="s3">=</span><span class="s5"><i>"NOT"</i></span><span class="s1">></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="color:black">                                   
</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black">    </span>
</span><span class="s1"><</span><span class="s2">Rule</span><span class="s3"> </span>
<span class="s4">xsi:type</span><span class="s3">=</span><i>"Value"</i><span class="s3">
</span><span class="s4">value</span><span class="s3">=</span><i>"NULL_VALUE"</i><span class="s3">
</span><span class="s1">/></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="color:black">                                   
</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black">  </span>
</span><span class="s1"></</span>PermitValueRule<span class="s1">></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="color:black">                       
</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black">  </span>
</span><span class="s1"></</span>AttributeRule<span class="s1">></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The above in attriute-filter does not appear to be excluding ‘NULL_VALUE’ – is it due to toattribute being an ‘<span style="font-size:11.0pt">EmptyAttributeValue</span>’ when the source is ‘NULL’ downstream?
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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