Exactly what I was looking for - thanks Dennis.
Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
There can be many types of differences between XML documents which are
not considered to be significant (whitespace, prefixes used for
namespaces, etc.), so if by "exactly identical" you mean the same
exact sequence of characters the answer is very likely "no". If you
mean they'll be equivalent XML documents, the answer is still very
likely "no" in the case of the WSDL, since Axis2 uses very different
code from Axis 1.4 to generate the WSDL and many aspects of the WSDL
are arbitrary (message names, etc.). For the actual SOAP message
you're more likely to have equivalent XML documents, but even here
there's room for differences without either implementation being in
error (skipping an element vs. including it with xsi:nil='true' when
the schema has both minOccurs="0" and nillable="true", for instance).
- Dennis
