The element <def-create-participant> is part of the <evidence-config> element. This element is used to define behavior for creating a participant. This same behavior can be reused by multiple <entity> definitions through the id. The one important thing to be noted here is that the data type of all attributes mentioned here must be defined as 'String'.
<def-create-participant id="SchoolRepresentative" type="RL13"> <participant-name-field name="firstName" from="participantName" order="1"/> <participant-address type="AT3"> <address-field name="addressLine1" from="street1"/> <address-field name="addressLine2" from="street2"/> <address-field name="city" from="city"/> <address-field name="state" from="state"/> <address-field name="zip" from="zipCode"/> </participant-address> </def-create-participant>