---
title: "Mapping Rules"
slug: "mapping-rules"
description: "This is a description of what the Mapping Rules are in RapidIdentity Connect."
tags: ["RapidIdentity ", "Connect", "Mapping", "Policy", "Actions"]
updated: 2022-06-03T13:36:24Z
published: 2022-06-03T13:36:24Z
canonical: "help.rapididentity.com/mapping-rules"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.rapididentity.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Mapping Rules

## Mapping Rules

- Namespaces, namespace prefixes, comments, and processing instructions are all ignored.
- Elements with no attributes and no content or whitespace-only content become null.
- Elements with no subelements and no attributes become the text, numeric, or boolean value of the element content.ActionScript

```actionscript
<x>Hello</x>
becomes
"Hello"
```
- Elements with attributes or child elements become a record.
- Nested element names (sans any namespace prefix) become record fieldsActionScript

```actionscript
<x>
<y>Hello</y>
</x>
becomes
{
"y": "Hello"
}
```
- Attributes become record fields prefixed with @.ActionScript

```actionscript
<x>
<y z="1"/>
</x>
becomes
{
"y": {
"@z": 1
}
}
```
- If an element has attributes and non-empty text-only content, then the text content becomes a record field named value.ActionScript

```actionscript
<x>
<y z="1">Hello</y>
</x>
becomes
{
"y": {
"@z": 1,
"value": "Hello"
}
}
```
- Multiple elements with the same name at the same level become multiple values of the same field.ActionScript

```actionscript
<x>
<y>Hello</y>
<y>Goodbye</y>
</x>
becomes
{
"y": ["Hello", "Goodbye"]
}
```
- If an element has mixed content (intermixed text and elements), then the text is ignored.ActionScript

```actionscript
<x>
<y>Hello</y>
Something in between
<y>Goodbye</y>
</x>
becomes
{
"y": ["Hello", "Goodbye"]
}
```