RE: Returning XML document from Service call

[Cathal O' Riordan]

Title: RE: Returning XML document from Service call

If it possible to return a Document object from an RPC type call could someone provide me with the steps to do this?   -----Original Message----- From: Volkmann, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 September 2003 14:59 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Returning XML document from Service call   I think you could return Document objects using RPC, but I don't think you want to.  I imagine that would serialize all the fields of all the nodes into XML.  Wouldn't you end up with XML elements that describe things like ownerDocument and nodeType for every node? -----Original Message----- From: Cathal O' Riordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Returning XML document from Service call   Can an org.w3c.dom.Document object be returned from an RPC style web service using a similar convention as below? Does RPC only support the use of objects to represent XML structures or can generic XML structures (encapsulated in DOM objects) be returned? Regards, C.   -----Original Message----- From: Dimuthu Leelarathne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 September 2002 05:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Returning XML document from Service call Cathol, Message style services would help you . They have signatures as below. Read about it in the user guide. public Element [] method(Element [] bodies); public SOAPBodyElement [] method (SOAPBodyElement [] bodies); public Document method(Document body); public void method(SOAPEnvelope req, SOAPEnvelope resp); Regards, Dimutu. ----- Original Message ----- From: Cathal O' Riordan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:20 PM Subject: Returning XML document from Service call   I'd like to return an XML document from my web service.  I'm aware of the various issues associated with serialisation and de-serialisation of complex types and initially followed the Beanserialiser approach.  However, I found that my XML document didn't follow a predictable format and couldn't be described as an object or set of objects.  Is it possible to just return a raw XML document from an Axis service and how is this done? Regards, C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A.G. Edwards & Sons' outgoing and incoming e-mails are electronically archived and subject to review and/or disclosure to someone other than the recipient. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------