Just an advise, start with the WSDL2Java tool and try to understand what's going on. You'll find most of your anwers. I think this is the best learning approach.
Joel -----Original Message----- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: first Document Style client I'm just getting started with XML, SOAP, and Axis. I'm in the early "figuring it out" stages. For experience, I'd like to try writing a bare bones client to get the service at: http://www.webservicex.net/uszip.asmx using the GetInfoByZipCode function. I've written an RPC client that can communicate with the service, but I don't know how to handle the <NewDataSet> and child elements, since this is a document type service. I get a [ERROR] Call - -Exception: <org.xml.sax.SAXException: SimpleDeserializer encountered a child element, which is NOT expected, in something it was trying to deserialize.> because I'm expecting a string return type but get a NewDataSet with children elements. I'm aware of the WSDL2Java tool, but since I'm learning I prefer to "write it myself" so I can get a better understanding of what's going on. I'm guessing that the "NewDataSet" element is defined somewhere on the site and I'd use this to parse the XML portion of the return. If someone could give a little insight as to what the steps would be to do this, I'd be thankful. Is the "XML-portion" (<NewDataSet>) of the return available in my Call object (or someway to get it)? Once I get the result XML, what do I use to parse the XML elements "automatically" using the <NewDataSet> definition? The service returns this XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";> <soap:Body> <GetInfoByZIPResponse xmlns="http://www.webserviceX.NET";> <GetInfoByZIPResult> <NewDataSet xmlns=""> <Table> <CITY>Forest Park</CITY> <STATE>GA</STATE> <ZIP>30297</ZIP> <AREA_CODE>404</AREA_CODE> <TIME_ZONE>E</TIME_ZONE> </Table> </NewDataSet> </GetInfoByZIPResult> </GetInfoByZIPResponse> </soap:Body></soap:Envelope>
