Hi,

I need to pass a SOAP message to a web service from xslt.

Please guide me how to write the xslt ....

Smaranika

This same question was asked a couple of days ago. There is no standard way to invoke web services from an XSLT stylesheet, either in XSLT 1.0 or 2.0. There may be a way to do it from your particular XSLT processor, but the solution will be vendor-dependent.

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

Hi,

Thanx for your update.. I am using visual studio 2005. I have written a webservice which adds two integer....

using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web.Services;
using System.Web.Services.Protocols;
using System.Xml;


/// <summary>
/// Summary description for WebService
/// </summary>
[WebService(Namespace = "http://www.tempuri.org/")]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
public class WebService : System.Web.Services.WebService {

    public WebService () {

        //Uncomment the following line if using designed components
        //InitializeComponent();
    }

    //[WebMethod]
    //public string HelloWorld()
    //{
    // return "Hello World";
    //}
    [WebMethod]
    public int WebAdd(int x, int y)
    {
        return x + y;
    }
    [WebMethod]
    public int WebMultiply(int x, int y)
    {
        return x * y;
    }
    [WebMethod]
    public void testmethod(XmlDocument xd)
    {

    }


The XSLT passes the int value by GET method:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:user="http://my_domain_name/my_namespace">

    <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:variable name="params" select="concat('x=',10,'&amp;y=',20)" />

        <xsl:variable name="CallWebService" select="'http://localhost:1600/smaranika_test/WebService.asmx/WebAdd'" />

        <xsl:variable name="docName" select="concat($CallWebService,'?',$params)" />

        <xsl:variable name="returnvalue" select="document($docName)" />
        <xsl:value-of select="$returnvalue"/>
    </xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>



It is running successfully.... Then why cant we call a web service using post method??

The document() function in most implementations will do a simple HTTP GET request. (Personally, I think it's a bit pretentious to call that a web service, but some people do.) However, there is no capability in the language to do a POST request, and there are some difficulties in providing such a capability in a language which is supposed to be purely functional and side-effect-free. I do know that some vendors have added such capabilities to their products but I can't give you any detail.

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