Re: [xml-dev] Transforming the whole soap response

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Jonathan Robie <>
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andrew welch <>
Date
2006-09-26T16:29:58Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Transforming the whole soap response
andrew welch wrote:
> In a test web service client I've written recently I transform the
> SOAP response XML using XSLT.  I'm not extracting the soap body, I'm
> transforming the whole lot.
>
> The XML returned in the response is reasonably complex, and the target
> is HTML so it seems natural to use XSLT.  Not being familiar with SOAP
> I'm just looking for confirmation that this is ok.  Has anyone written
> a system where the entire response is transformed, is there anything
> to look out for?

This is perfectly reasonable. SOAP really doesn't say much about how you 
create the response (this is intentional), you can do that with any 
tools that you find useful.

Jonathan

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