Help with Soap

[star]

Hi

I am new to SOAP infact I know nothing abt it. We have a web service
and Soap calls are made to it. I have the custom code to it but I don't
even know how to run it or how to make connection to it. What I did is
I saved the code as an XML file but when I open with IE it gives me
following error:

Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and
then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Invalid at the top level of the document. Error processing resource

May be I am doing it all wrong. I searched for this but did not find
any solution.

Here is the code:

POST /ADMS/ads.asmx HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Host: xxx.xx.xx.com
User-Agent: SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.55
Content-Length: 736
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: http://xxx.com/ChangeData

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema">

<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ChangeData xmlns="http://xxx.com/">

<UserName xsi:type="xsd:string">ccc</UserName>
<Password xsi:type="xsd:string">!Bbtmf</Password>
<usernid xsi:type="xsd:string">bag</usernid>
<userAttribute xsi:type="xsd:string">TELEPHONENUMBER</userAttribute>
<userValue xsi:type="xsd:string"/>000-1478</userValue>

</ChangeData></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
Also, to run SOAP do I need any SOAP software installed on it? Please
help me.

Thanks in advance

[Martin Honnen]

star wrote:

I am new to SOAP infact I know nothing abt it. We have a web service
and Soap calls are made to it. Also, to run SOAP do I need any SOAP software installed on it?

You are asking in dotnet.xml so you should have the .NET framework and
that has all tools to create web services and consume them.
If you want to use .NET to consume a web service then use the wsdl.exe
tool read the WSDL decription of the web service and have it create a
proxy class. That way you do not deal with SOAP at all directly, rather
you create an instance of the web service proxy in your .NET code and
call its methods and get the results all with .NET types.
See
<http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/aspplus/doc/webservicesintro.aspx>
for .NET 1.x and
<http://www.asp.net/quickstart/webservices/>
for .NET 2.0.

If you don't use the .NET framework then look for help in a more
appropriate group.

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/