NonStop SOAP User's Manual

The Service Description Language (SDL)

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SDL DTD for TS/MP and NonStop Processes

NonStop SOAP server can now process a SOAP request which is of RPC style and

contain multi-reference elements. For example, here is a SOAP request from an

Apache Axis client containing a multi-reference element.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<soapenv:Envelope

xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"

xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<soapenv:Body>

<ns1:BookCatalogRPC

soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encodi

ng/" xmlns:ns1="BookCatalogRPC">

</ns1:BookCatalogRPC>

<multiRef id="id0"

soapenc:root="0"

soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encodi

ng/"

xsi:type="ns2:BookCatalogRPC"

xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"

xmlns:ns2="urn:cpq_tns_BookCatalogRPC">

<bookinfo xsi:type="xsd:string">Grisham</bookinfo>

</multiRef>

</soapenv:Body>

</soapenv:Envelope>

In the SOAP message above, the element <BookCatalogRPC href="#id0"/>, refers to

an element which has an attribute id with a value of “id0”.

Also note that in the SDL for the above service, the <service> element has the attribute

NameSpaceQualified set to "yes", and SoapMessageType set to "rpc".

<!-- Attribute 'SoapDDLAttribute': The specified value indicates

to NonStop SOAP that all the leaf fields of the request and

response DDL definitions of that service are to be represented

as XML attributes. The specified value is "yes" or "no", the