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

["andrew welch" <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

On 9/26/06, Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect.com> wrote:
> 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.

Ahh, good.  thanks Jonathan.