Namespace binding problems

[Michael Peterson]

Hi,

I have a servlet that receives SOAPMessages like the following:


<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
    xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
    xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>

    <SOAP-ENV:Body>
        <ns1:gimmeQuote xmlns:ns1="urn:TEST3">
            <x xsi:type="xsd:string">av1</x>
            <y xsi:type="xsd:string">bv1</y>
        </ns1:gimmeQuote>
    </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>


I extract the content of the SOAPBody ie the following:

<ns1:gimmeQuote xmlns:ns1="urn:TEST3">
    <x xsi:type="xsd:string">av1</x>
    <y xsi:type="xsd:string">bv1</y>
</ns1:gimmeQuote>


for later processing, but when I try to parse it i get errors about xsi
not being bound:

The prefix "xsi" for attribute "xsi:type" is not bound.

Is there a generic way of adding namespace declarations to each element
where they are used without manually going in and adding the namespace
declarations.


Thanx in advance,
Michael