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>