Hello

For logging requirement, i am creating a log message of type SOAP that contains request to our application and response from theapplication. These request and response messages are of type SOAP. The request and response messages are enclosed in CDATA tags.

After the required log message is created as an outcome of a transform action, i am not able to see the namespace of the "soapenv" prefix in the request message that is contained in the log message. (prob because the prefix of "Envelope" in log message and that of request is the same) how to get the namespace in the request message also?

the log request is shown below:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:v002="http://www.company.com/schema/app/LoggingCommonTypes/V001" xmlns:v1="http://www.company.com/wsdl/app/EnterpriseLogging/V1_0" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:dp="http://www.datapower.com/schemas/management">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<v002:verbosityData>
<v002:request>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema">
<soapenv:Body>

</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
</v002:request>
<v002:response>
<ns1:Envelope xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:osa="http://www.company.com/xmlschema/resource/metadata/osa/infrastructure/v001">
<ns1:Body>

</ns1:Body>
</ns1:Envelope>
</v002:response>
</v002:verbosityData>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Oh dear, yet another person who thinks we can debug their code without seeing it.

If you want to know where your mistake is, you will have to show us your XSLT code.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Kay

here is the xsl:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:variable name="test">
            <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:dp="http://www.datapower.com/schemas/management" xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:v002="http://www.company.com/schema/app/LoggingCommonTypes/V001" xmlns:v1="http://www.company.com/wsdl/app/EnterpriseLogging/V1_0" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
                <soapenv:Header/>
                <soapenv:Body>
                    <v002:verbosityData>
                        <v002:request>
                            <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
                                <soapenv:Body/>
                            </soapenv:Envelope>
                        </v002:request>
                        <v002:response>
                            <ns1:Envelope xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:osa="http://www.company.com/xmlschema/resource/metadata/osa/infrastructure/v001">
                                <ns1:Body/>
                            </ns1:Envelope>
                        </v002:response>
                    </v002:verbosityData>
                </soapenv:Body>
            </soapenv:Envelope>
        </xsl:variable>
        <xsl:copy-of select="$test"/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

the ns definition for soapenv(of v002:request) is not present in the output.how to get this ns in the output?

The namespace declaration is not included in the output because it is redundant. If a containing element has the declaration xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" then this is in scope for all descendant elements and there is no need to declare it again on inner elements. The XSLT serializer will never output redundant namespace declarations and there is no way to make it do so. Why do you need them?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

we will be logging the request and response message present in the log message in linux boxes. after creating the log message i will send this to a webservice. the webservice will extract the request and response soap message out of log message and will log them in linux server. the webservice blindly extracts the request SOAP message (enclosed within CDATA) out of <v002:request> tag and logs it in linux box. ultimately we end up loging a invalid log message. so this is the requirement. so what i think is the logging webservice should insert the namespace for us. correct?

>the webservice blindly extracts the request SOAP message (enclosed within CDATA) out of <v002:request> tag and logs it in linux box

No-one should blindly extract anything from the middle of an XML message. Elements are meaningless without their namespace context, so any extraction of elements from the middle of a document must be done in a way that preserves the namespace context.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference