I have a soap response which is RPC style, so it has ‘multiref’s. The response was passed to me as a String. Can I use StAX parser to parse it? Can StaX resolve mutirefs automatically?
Thanks,
Sarah
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I have a soap response which is RPC style, so it has ‘multiref’s. The response was passed to me as a String. Can I use StAX parser to parse it? Can StaX resolve mutirefs automatically?
Thanks,
Sarah
Unfortunately not, multi-refs are a feature of the SOAP encoding model, and not a feature of xml itself. You’ll have to decode the multi-refs yourself either after you’ve finished xml parsing (easier but requires you to save a lot of state), or as you go (which can be more efficient, but still require a lot of state, and a lot of work). Unless you’re dealing with large documents you may just be better giving up on streaming parse and use a DOM style parer. then at least you can fairly easily xpath through the doc to resolve the references.
The other option of course, it to find a soap toolkit that can parse it for you.