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Payload Processing Tools

SOAP Create Envelope

Creates a new SOAP envelope. To simplify composing RPC requests, where the first child element of the <Body> element is the method to invoke, the ‘RPC Method Name' and ‘RPC Method Namespace' argument can be used as shortcut. The same can be achieved by invoking ‘SOAP Add Body Element' after creating the envelope. Therefore, this tool creates the following XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="{XML Encoding}" ?>=""    
<{Envelope Prefix}:Body>
     [</{RPC Method Name}>]
   </{Envelope Prefix}:Body>
</{Envelope Prefix}:Envelope>

The ‘Declare Namespaces' argument is used to declare namespaces in the envelope that will be used in other elements, such as the xsd or xsi prefixes for typed arguments. It keeps the size of the envelope low, as otherwise each element that uses a prefix will contain xmlns attributes. If the ‘RPC Method Name' argument has no namespace prefix and an ‘RPC Method Namespace' different than "" (default namespace) is specified, a prefix will be synthesized, unless the local name starts with a ‘:' (which is illegal in XML, but signals to this tool not to add a synthesized namespace prefix). Adding a prefix can greatly reduce the size of the message if child elements are in no namespace (usually parameters are in the default namespace), as otherwise each child element would get a xmlns="" attribute.

Exit Paths: Success, Failure

Parameter	Dir.	Type	Remarks
XML Encoding	IN	String	Optional. Character encoding to be used for the XML document. If omitted, "UTF-8" is used. See remarks.
Envelope Prefix	IN	String	Optional. Namespace prefix for the envelope namespace. If not specified the default "SOAP-ENV" is used.
Encoding Style	IN	String	Optional. Space separated list of namespaces specifying the encoding style (value of the ‘encodingStyle' attribute). If not specified or "STANDARD" is passed as string, "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" is used. The encodingStyle attribute is omitted if "NONE" is specified.
RPC Method Name	IN	String	Optional. Fully qualified name of the method element (first child element of the body element). If not specified, no method element will be added. Please consult Remarks for additional details!
RPC Method Namespace	IN	String	Optional. Namespace of the method element.
Declare Namespaces	IN	String	Space delimited list of namespace declarations of the form xmlns:{prefix}=‘{URI}' to be declared in the envelope. See remarks.
Selection Namespaces	IN	String	Optional. Space delimited list of namespace declarations to be set as selection namespaces for the XPath queries. If argument not specified, the envelope prefix and the ‘Declare Namespace' namespaces will be set as selection namespaces. NOTE: mapping for envelope prefix will always be added.
Envelope	OUT	Node	XML document with Envelope as document element.