This is a function of XML. You just have to deal with it. Your message must include the full namespace URIs in the namespace declarations -- they are in fact defining aliases. These namespace declarations (e.g., xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope";) permit you to specify "soapenv" rather than "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; later in the message.
There is no way to avoid it. If these few extra bytes are a real problem for you, then you should try using a binary protocol rather than an XML protocol. But I can't think why this would be a real problem for you. Even a tiny device shouldn't have an issue with the extra bytes (working on the assumption that the device supports XML). Network bandwidth is now vitually free. Anne On 6/16/05, Amihai Fuks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently started to use SOAP and as I can see the XML response has > a huge overhead. All I can see there are long tags that approximately > make the response 100 times longer. Can I reduce tags like: > > <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";> > > There must be a sort of way to alias these long tags. > > Amihai >
