Hi All, I am re-posting this message, hoping to get some urgent help. I am using AXIS 1.4 for my web service needs. I am now encounting the following error when I try to send an XML over HTTP: I have a valid XML message as a string, the XML message defines a namespace at the root element like this: xmlns:ns1="somthing" Let me assume this xml string as xmltext, now I create a soap envelope with this XML message as body, the soapEnvelope object seems good to me in my debugger, but a problem occurs when I try to deserialize it using soapEnvelope.toString() or soapEnvelope.getAsString(). I notice that for every local element in the original xml such as this: <ns1:rec>xxx</ns1:rec>, in the output string, I get the the following: <ns1:rec xmlns:ns1="">xxx</ns1:rec> That is, there is an extra attribute with empty value. This causes problems for the receivers of the http response. Here are my code snappet: =================================================== SOAPEnvelope soapEnvelope = new SOAPEnvelope(); Element bodyElement = createDocument(xmltext).getDocumentElement(); org.apache.axis.message.SOAPBodyElement messageElement = new org.apache.axis.message.SOAPBodyElement(bodyElement);
soapEnvelope.addBodyElement((SOAPBodyElement)messageElement); The createDocument(xmlText) calls the following APIs: InputSource source = new InputSource( new StringReader( xmlText ) ) ; DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(false); DocumentBuilder docBuilder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); return docBuilder.parse(source); It seems to me that AXIS has a bug handling this case. Any help is very much appreciated! Thanks! Frank ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]