Soap body xml different on server

Question

Hello,
I am trying to verify a soap body string using a signature in the soap header. But am getting a slightly modified version of the soap message on the server side handler.
Here is how my client side handler soap body looks:
<n1:xyz xmlns:n1="http://localhost/edm/DocMgmtParametersRetriever">
</n1:xyz>
On the server side,
<n1:xyz xmlns:n1="http://localhost/edm/DocMgmtParametersRetriever"></n1:xyz>
The differences are:
1.There is an extra space between n1:xyz and xmlns on the client side.
2.There is a line break before </n1:xyz> on the client side which is not present on the server side.
When I add following lines of code on client side, the soap body looks the same and server is able to verify the signature.
soapBody = soapBody.replaceAll(" xmlns:"," xmlns:");
soapBody = soapBody.replaceAll("\n","");
soapBody = soapBody.replaceAll("\r\n","");
soapBody = soapBody.replaceAll("\r","");
The server is on weblogic 8.1 sp3. The webservice java client is using saaj-api.jar
Any clue as to why there is a difference?
Thank you

Answer 1

Welcome to the forums.
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That said, a basic example that pulls the contents of the body out is
declare
  l_ws_rsp    XMLTYPE;
  l_body_rsp  XMLTYPE;
begin
  -- Retrieving the SOAP message
  l_ws_rsp := DHL_SOAP_RESPONSE_XMLTYPE;
  -- Extracting out the body
  SELECT xt.body_xml
    INTO l_body_rsp
    FROM XMLTable(XMLNamespaces('http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' AS "SOAP-ENV"),
                  '/SOAP-ENV:Envelope/SOAP-ENV:Body/*'
                  PASSING l_ws_rsp
                  COLUMNS
                  body_xml   XMLTYPE PATH '.') xt;
   dbms_output.put_line(l_body_rsp.getClobVal());
end;If you Google
XMLTable soap site:forums.oracle.com
you can find plenty of examples on these forums regarding how to parse a web service response.
The bigger question is, what are you going to do with the data in the response. As the example above alludes too, you can actually parse the entire WS response with one SQL statement and return the results as one or more rows. Will you be performing PL/SQL logic on the returned results or will you simply be INSERTing them into the database for something else to use?