SOAP response enclosed in XD tags

Question

Hello,
I use this function to make a SOAP request to my server:
function Execute-SOAPRequest
[Xml] $SOAPRequest,
[String] $URL
write-host "Sending SOAP Request To Server: $URL"
$soapWebRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($URL)
$soapWebRequest.Headers.Add("SOAPAction","`"`"")
$soapWebRequest.ContentType = "text/xml;charset=`"utf-8`""
$soapWebRequest.Accept = "text/xml"
$soapWebRequest.Method = "POST"
write-host "Initiating Send."
$requestStream = $soapWebRequest.GetRequestStream()
$SOAPRequest.Save($requestStream)
$requestStream.Close()
write-host "Send Complete, Waiting For Response."
$resp = $soapWebRequest.GetResponse()
$responseStream = $resp.GetResponseStream()
$soapReader = [System.IO.StreamReader]($responseStream)
$ReturnXml = [Xml] $soapReader.ReadToEnd()
$responseStream.Close()
write-host "Response Received."
return $ReturnXml
The soap response is well recived but with the command "$ret | Export-Clixml  c:\1.xml;Get-Content c:\1.xml",
the XML file contains:
<Objs Version="1.1.0.1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/powershell/2004/04">
<XD> ... </XD>
</Objs>
Between XD tags I have my xml reponse received from the server except that "<" and ">" are converted
to the html code, "&lt;" and "&gt;".
I'm using select-string cmdlet with -patern option to check the response, but it would be more convenient to use the xml
way like $ret.SelectNodes()
I tried doing a replace on the response before doing the export-clixml, but it doesnt work, how can I do this ?
Thank you :)

Answer 1

Nice bunch ofgueses but, if you look up the type and see that it has a "save", then you will be able to do this:
Here I show how t use static strings to avoind issues with quotes in HTML and XML strings.  In bothe we can use either single or double quotes on attributes.
function Execute-SOAPRequest{
Param(
[xml]$SOAPRequest,
[string] $URL
write-host "Sending SOAP Request To Server: $URL"
$soapWebRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($URL)
$soapWebRequest.Headers.Add('SOAPAction','""')
$soapWebRequest.ContentType = 'text/xml;charset="utf-8"'
$soapWebRequest.Accept = 'text/xml'
$soapWebRequest.Method = 'POST'
write-host 'Initiating Send.'
$requestStream = $soapWebRequest.GetRequestStream()
$SOAPRequest.Save($requestStream)
$requestStream.Close()
write-host 'Send Complete, Waiting For Response.'
$resp = $soapWebRequest.GetResponse()
$responseStream = $resp.GetResponseStream()
$soapReader = [System.IO.StreamReader]($responseStream)
$ReturnXml = [Xml]$soapReader.ReadToEnd()
$responseStream.Close()
write-host 'Response Received.'
$ReturnXml
# to save
$xml=Execute-SOAPRequest $request $uri
$xml.Save('c:\mysoap.xml')
Export-CliXml is used to persist PS objects.  It does not ssabe XML objects as an XML file.
Use [xml] to reload tehfile
You should use New-WebServiceProxy as it does all of this for you.
$URI = "http://www.webservicex.net/uszip.asmx?WSDL"
$zip = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $URI
$xmlResponse=$zip.GetInfoByAreaCode(212)
$xmlResponse.Table | ft -auto
$xml=[xml]('<ac212>'+$xmlResponse.InnerXml.ToString()+'</ac212>')
$xml.Save('c:\AC212.xml')
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