Adding xml fragment to SOAP body (SAAJ)

Question

Hi all,
we are using SOAP (or better SAAJ) in a modular design as packaging/enveloping format for arbitrary payloads which are generated by different modules.
How is it possible to add a xml fragment (as InputStream or DOM Node) to a SOAP Body ?
Nick
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Answer 1

Hi Vicky,
I guess, we have a little misunderstanding here. The core SOAP specification defines the structure of the envelope, the "SOAP with attachments" specification extends that by defining how to add binary attachments. This is accomplished by using MIME. Every attachment is another MIMEPart, but the SOAP Envelope always has to be present as first MIMEPart. Now I don't want to add any attachments, I only want to construct a SOAP Envelope that contains arbitrary xml docs (fragments) in the body.
Look at the example below, the tags with namespace "S" belong to the SOAP specification and are built by our SOAP layer, the tags with namespace "m" belong to some other namespace and are generated by a totally different component.
My question was how I could add (within SAAJ) the xml fragment starting with "m:PurchaseOrder" to the envelope without having to add element by element.
<S:Envelope>
     <S:Header>
          ...optional header tags
     </S:Header>
     <S:Body>
                <!---from here it is a different namespace, SOAP doesn't know about PurchaseOrders>
          <m:PurchaseOrder>
               <m:position>
                    <m:article>0815</m:article>
                    <m:description>mainboard</m:description>
                    <m:price>50</m:price>
               </m:position>
               <m:position>
                    <m:article>0816</m:article>
                    <m:description>cpu</m:description>
                    <m:price>100</m:price>
               </m:position>
          </PurchaseOrder>
                <!---from here, it is SOAP again>
     </S:Body>
</S:Envelope>