Hi,
I'm having problems integrating Apache SOAP with some SOAP servers. The problem is the way Apache SOAP appears to handle NULL values, in that it attaches the xsi:null="true" attribute to the appropriate element. I have looked at http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/ under section "5.1 Rules for Encoding Types in XML". The ninth point is "A NULL value or a default value MAY be represented by omission of the accessor element. A NULL value MAY also be indicated by an accessor element containing the attribute xsi:null with value '1' or possibly other application-dependent attributes and values". So the SOAP 1.1 specification appears to state that null values should be represented by the xsi:null="1" attribute, but Apache SOAP represents this by xsi:null="true". This is causing problems with my application server which doesn't recognise the values sent by Apache as actually being null. Regards, Nigel
