1) Make a SwitchYard application with a Camel route. 2) Have the Camel route look something like below. 3) Slightly move one of the Camel components on the canvas, to force a 'save'. The canvas (and underlying XML) will lose components. ----------------- Sample route that shows the problem -------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ASCII"?> <routes xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring"> <route> <from uri="switchyard://GreetingService"/> <log message="GreetingService - message received: ${body}"/> <!-- extract address, for later --> <setHeader headerName="Address"> <xpath resultType="java.lang.String"> /myXml/Address </xpath> </setHeader> <!-- do the same with numofpages --> <setHeader headerName="NumOfPages"> <xpath resultType="java.lang.String"> /myXml/NumOfPages </xpath> </setHeader> <split> <xpath>/myXml/Numbers/Number</xpath> <to uri="switchyard://NumberProcessor"/> </split> <!-- Now work with Address, NumOfPages --> <log message="Address:${header.Address}" /> <log message="NumOfPages:${header.NumOfPages}" /> </route> </routes>