- BizTalk utilizes the XML Schema Definition (XSD) to define the structure of all message that it processes
- The XSD message structures are known as 'schemas' within BizTalk
- It is by the use of these XML Schemas that BizTalk is able to conduct all of its integration operations
BizTalk supports the following types of schemas:
- XML - (XSD)
- Flat-file - structure of a message using flat-files that are delimited or positional
- Property - special type of schema that identifies specific field elements that you want to make available to a BizTalk Orchestration
