That's great, thanks a million! Just one other question, can I define more than one bean class in the same bean mapping? -----Original Message----- From: Anne Thomas Manes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 October 2004 14:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: namespaces
A qname (qualified name) is a name that consists of a namespace prefix (the characters before the colon) and a local name (the characters after the colon). For example, in the qname "wsdl:portType", "wsdl" is the namespace prefix, and "portType" is the local name. A namespace prefix is an abbreviation for the actual namespace. The prefix must be defined in a namespace declaration, such as xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/";. Hence the true name for wsdl:portType is http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/}portType. The purpose of a namespace is to distinguish one XML element from other elements with the same local name. (You shouldn't give two elements within the same namespace the same name.) A namespace is typically created when defining an XML Schema or WSDL document. For example, a WSDL document starts with: <wsdl:definitions name="exampleWsdl" targetNamespace="urn:exampleWsdl" ... > All elements defined within this WSDL document will then belong to the "urn:exampleWsdl" namespace. For documentation about the WSDD file, I suggest you check out http://www.osmoticweb.com/axis-wsdd/. Here's an example of the beanMapping declaration from the osmoticweb site: <beanMapping xmlns:ns="http://soapinterop.org/xsd"; qname="ns:ArrayOfString" type="java:java.lang.String[]" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; /> What you're trying to do here is tell Axis how to map an XML structure to a Java language type. The qname you specify here identifies the XML structure that you're trying to map. In this example, The xmlns:ns declaration defines the namespace that contains the "ArrayOfString" type definition. If you have defined an XML type in a schema file, then you need to specify that type here, and your namespace declaration must reference the targetNamespace of your schema file. For example: <beanMapping xmlns:ns1="urn:MyNamespace" qname="ns1:MyStringArray" type="java:java.lang.String[]" /> Anne ________________________________________ From: Suzy Fynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: namespaces Hi, Can anyone tell what kind a ns:local is in the <beanMapping qname="ns:local" ../> I'm not sure how namespaces work exactly, is it something I create myself? Thanks
