empty namespaces in SOAP messages from axis

[Laurent . IOZELLI]

Hi all,

I'm a kind of newbie in Axis and SOAP in general, and I have a problem.

I have a gSOAP server and an Axis client trying to communicate, but they
fail. They are both generated with the same WSDL. My client launches its
request, the gSOAP server handles it and responds. But an exception is
raised by the sax parser.

Here is the request :

POST / HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Accept: application/soap+xml, application/dime, multipart/related, text/*
User-Agent: Axis/1.2beta3
Host: localhost:5555
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
SOAPAction: "http://namespace1/MyMethod";
Content-Length: 665

<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>
      <MyMethod xmlns="urn:plop">
         <Attribute1 xmlns="">Value</Attribute1>
         <Attribute2 xmlns="">
            <Node1>
               Some stuff
            </Node1>
         </Attribute2>
      </MyMethod>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>


And the response :

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: gSOAP/2.5
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 985
Connection: close

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope 
    xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";  
    xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"; 
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"; 
    xmlns:ns1="http://namespace1.com";>
<SOAP-ENV:Body id="_0">
   <MyMethodResponse xmlns="urn:plop">
      <Attribute1 xsi:type="ns1:Attribute1">
         <Node1 xsi:type="ns1:Node1">
             Some stuff
         </Node1>
      </Attribute1>
      <return xsi:type="ns1:Report">OK</return>
</MyMethodResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>


Now the exception raised :

org.xml.sax.SAXException: Invalid element in com.namespace1.Attribute1 -
Node1


I managed to isolate what seems to be the problem : When I put a xmlns="" in
the response element <Attribute1 xsi:type="ns1:Attribute1">, everything
works fine.

But I'd like to find a solution on Axis side, by eliminating those empty
namespaces from messages sent by my client. How can I do that ?

Is there a link with elementFormDefault and attributeFormDefault ?

Thanks,
Laurent