Question

I m trying to return an xpath answer to a soap client (i am using an xml file as database).
The method works fine when it’s called on the server side, unfortunatelly, the client always get an annoying ” looks like we got no XML document ” error, with this kind of
xml answer:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="urn://localhost/projet/srv" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:ns2="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns1:getTypesVehiculeResponse>
<return SOAP-ENC:arrayType="SOAP-ENC:Struct[4]" xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array">
<item xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Struct">
<@attributes xsi:type="ns2:Map">
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">id</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">0</value>
</item>
...
</return>
</ns1:getTypesVehiculeResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Should I use another way to send my XML database answers than directly return xpath answer?

Answer 1

SoapClient should eliminate the need for xpath querying since it already parses the SOAP XML, but if you still want to use xpath, you can try using simplexml as per this answer. If you have an issue with namespaces, try this