I haven't tried it yet myself, but in 1.1beta (may have been there before, 1.1beta is the first release I've really looked into the code for) there is a Serializer and Deserializer for Element:
axis-1_1beta\src\org\apache\axis\encoding\ser\ ElementDeserializer.java ElementDeserializerFactory.java ElementSerializer.java ElementSerializerFactory.java Again, I haven't tried it myself, but reading through the above code and the SerializerContextImpl I can't see how the Element serializer wouldn't build an incorrect SOAP envelope (one extra element level in the XML?) if you used it with an RPC-encoded message (eg, sent the SOAP InteropRound2 <SOAPStruct><varString>...</SOAPStruct> parameter as an Element to echoStruct() as opposed to a Java object via BeanSerializer). So, I'm not sure whether that serializer was only intended for doc/literal or whether it's also useful for RPC-encoded. ..Mike -----Original Message----- From: Josema Alonso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 4:33 AM To: Axis-User Subject: how to deserializing a DOM Element? Dear all, I'm a newbie trying to make a web service work. I have a method like this: public Class Recordings { public Element getEquipmentTypes() { Element resultElement; ... ... return resultElement; } ... } The resultElement is built ok. I can deploy the service and make it work. I have tried to make a SOAP request to this service. It works ok from Cocoon using XSP. I have also tried from Websphere Developer and .Net and I've found an error: it cannot foud a deserializer for the Element. The relevant part of the WSDL file is: <wsdl:types> <schema targetNamespace="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap"; xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";> <import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/> <element name="Element" nillable="true" type="apachesoap:Element"/> </schema> </wsdl:types> <wsdl:message name="getEquipmentTypesResponse"> <wsdl:part name="getEquipmentTypesReturn" type="apachesoap:Element"/> </wsdl:message> I have searched the archives and tried a couple solutiones I found there with no luck. Am I missing something? Can anybody help me, please? ps: since I started with web services I can't beliebe sending XML in a SOAP envelope is the most difficult thing to achieve...
