Need help with XML Parsing on SOAP

[Sri Pos]

Hello,

I'm writing this web service client that gets me the response wrapped in a SOAP Envelope as follows:

<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<env:Header>
</env:Header>
<env:Body>
<employee xmlns="http://something.someone.com">
<employee_name>Srinvias</employee_name>
<emp_no>484020</emp_no>
</employee>
</env:Body>
</env:Envelope>

The mentioned SOAP request comes in as String.

Can Someone please help me how do I 'extract' the employee xml as a string or Document?

All that I'm interested is:

<employee xmlns="http://something.someone.com">
<employee_name>Srinvias</employee_name>
<emp_no>484020</emp_no>
</employee>


Please help me... I really need this soon...


Thanks,
SriPos.

[Ulf Dittmer]

SOAP is XML - any XML parser will do. Both DOM and SAX can parse XML from a Reader. The classes that help with this are java.io.StringReader and org.xml.sax.InputSource.

[Sri Pos]

I understand that SOAP is xml.... I tried using the DOM method to parse the xml... how ever, what method should I use to get me the xml in the soap-body? I guess I'm lost... any help on this will really be appreciated..

- thanks.....

[Ulf Dittmer]

Well, if you have a DOM Document, you can use it to find the "Body" element, and then copy its first (or all) child elements.

[Dhananjayan Karnam]

Hi, From <env:Body> get all child tags which are the data you need.

[Tracy Nelson]

I have the XML passed as a String to my web method, then I use JAXB to unmarshall it into the appropriate Java class. If you've got a schema defined (and it appears you do), then there shouldn't be any reason to write any parser code. Just use JAXB to generate the classes from your schema and let JAXB do the work.

At least, that's what *I* do....

[Sumit Bansal]

Hi Sri pro...(i hope i wrote your name right)..

Sri i am working to send a soap message over an existing web service(Implemented in .NET,IIS) but i am not able to set the content type of my message..
Just help me to create my SOAP message and set its content as text/XML.

Now i am using a stringBuffer and converting it to input stream. From this stream i am creating my soap message Using SAAJ

thank you in advance.