soap & soapenv

[Dhana Wongwerawattanakoon]

Could anyone tell me about the diff between these 2 tags.
I just start working on sending SOAP to web services.
I have the SOAP client in place.
When I create XML file to send a request using <soap>, program work good.
But when I use <soapenv>, it caused error as follow.

Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 500 for URL: https://ws.melissadata.com/dqws/add
ress.asmx
at com.ibm.net.ssl.www.protocol.http.ch.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.net.ssl.www.protocol.https.t.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at SOAPClient4XG.main(SOAPClient4XG.java:105)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Exception: missing end tag near line 1, column 0
at qdxml.QDParser.exc(QDParser.java:314)
at qdxml.QDParser.parse(QDParser.java:309)
at Reporter.reportOnFile(Reporter.java:57)
at Reporter.main(Reporter.java:47)

[Ulf Dittmer]

Where do you see or use these tags? The error is complaining about invalid XML, not a particular tag. Could it be that you use <soap> at the beginning and <soapenv> (or vice-versa) at the end of your XML?

As a side note, if the XML works with <soap>, why would you expect to also work with <soapenv>? Does the documentation mention that it should?

[wise owen]

You problem may be relative to the xml namespace.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope  xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
                ...>
    <soap:Header>
         <!-- extensions of Header blocks go here -->
    </soap:Header>
    <soap:Body>
         <!-- message payload goes here -->
    </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

if you use "soapenv"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
...>
<soapenv:Header>
<!-- extensions of Header blocks go here -->
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<!-- message payload goes here -->
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
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