Parsing multiref elements

Question

hi!
I am trying to parse xml documents with elements like the following.
                <ns1:fullRequestResponse xmlns:ns1="http://some.name.space">
               <token href="#ID1"/>
               <result href="#ID2"/>
               <charged href="#ID3"/>
          </ns1:fullRequestResponse>...
          <ns1:response id="ID2" xsi:type="ns1:response">
               <result xsi:type="xsd:string">accepted</result>
               <text xsi:type="xsd:string">accepted</text>
          </ns1:response>Using DOM I only get an element with the attribute href="#ID2", the child element ( response ) is not accessible. Do I have to resolve the multiref by myself or can I use DOM (or JDOM, SAX., ...) to do that for me?
cheers,,
Philipp

Answer 1

I am currently faced with a similar issue. The following are the details. Any insights?
*** XML Document ***
<ns1:Body xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<ns1:echoObjectResponse soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:ns1="http://localhost:8080/axis/EchoHeaders.jws" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<ns1:echoObjectReturn href="#id0"/>
</ns1:echoObjectResponse>
<multiRef id="id0" soapenc:root="0" ns1:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<description xsi:type="ns2:string" xsi:nil="true" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
<id href="#id1"/>
<name xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">Internet Widget</name>
</multiRef>
<multiRef id="id1" soapenc:root="0" ns1:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="xsd:long" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">1</multiRef>
</ns1:Body>
*** Code for parsing ***
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = builder.parse("c:\\sample.xml");
System.out.println("Printing multi-ref info: " + document.getElementsByTagNameNS("http://localhost:8080/axis/EchoHeaders.jws", "echoObjectResponse").getLength());
//// above prints the value 0
Thanks,
-ac