Thanks for the suggestions - and sorry for the late response (for some reason I didn't get an email notification) - in fact, I only saw it because I was coming back here to report that I indeed used XSLT to do the translation. I found that if I removed all namespace information from thisEventStartMessageRequest and copied the "namespace-less" version of appdatas to my variable named output (which has the namespace that I want) everything worked fine.

Two things that made debugging a little challenging were:

1. My initForm was not getting updated in the bpm file - What is the right way to "update" the bpm file after modifying an xform file. I have been dragging the xform file to an empty place on the map, dropping it there, choosing one of the options (e.g. Create init...) and then deleting the activity that is created. Though this usually works, I am thinking there is a better way.

2. My system was becoming painfully slow - especially loading the instance page in the console (which could easily take 5 minutes to load). I figured that it was due to the fact that I had over 500 instances (lots of trial and error :) ). I started cleaning that up today and have about 60 instances that are stuck in the "In Progress" state. When I select an instance choose "Suspend", I get a "genError.htm" page due to:
12:00:56,041 ERROR [log] Nested in javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Error reading 'format
tedMessage' on type org.intalio.tempo.web.controller.ActionError:
javax.el.ELException: Error reading 'formattedMessage' on type org.intalio.tempo.web.controller.ActionError
at javax.el.BeanELResolver.getValue(BeanELResolver.java:66)
at javax.el.CompositeELResolver.getValue(CompositeELResolver.java:53)
at org.apache.el.parser.AstValue.getValue(AstValue.java:97)
at org.apache.el.ValueExpressionImpl.getValue(ValueExpressionImpl.java:186)

However I am guessing that the reason I can't suspend these instances (and then terminate/delete them) is that there definitions have already been undeployed (those were building up also). Is there any way to delete instances once the defintions have been undeployed?

Thanks so much,
RB