[MOBY-dev] [moby] Example of a response message with SOAP envelope

[Mark Wilkinson]

Well, I don't know how other service providers do it, but I seldom
validate the incoming XML *at all*.  I simply use an XPath query or
something like that to reach into the XML document to get the pieces
that I expect to be in there (based on whatever I registered as my input
data type).  If they are not there, I throw an error.

It is possible, of course, to query the ontology to make sure that what
you have received is a child of what you registered as consuming... but
that's a lot of overhead, and besides, what are you going to do if it
isn't a child?  fail with an error :-)  so I simply fail with an error
if I don't find what I want, and skip the expensive validation step
altogether.

M




On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 18:34 +0200, Javier de la Torre wrote:
> Ups!
> 
> And how does the services work? I mean, do they have to connect to  
> the registry to check the relations of the objects they serve with  
> what other people might be sending them? Or is it that they just take  
> the string, in my case, and do something with it? If it is the second  
> then a user, stupidly, could be sending an object to a service that  
> is not necessarily inheritanced from the data type he understands and  
> he will be using it. Of course there is nothing wrong to provide  
> stupid answers to stupid questions, but, is it like this?
> 
> The, can I just take the content from the <moby:string> in the income  
> message and expect that it is actually a ScientificName?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Javier.
> 
> 
> On 19/09/2006, at 18:26, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 18:22 +0200, Javier de la Torre wrote:
> >> information I need so I think I am safe because inside your
> >> MyScientificName there will still be a ScientificName. I dont mind
> >> where in the XML it is because XSLT will find it, hopefully!
> >
> >
> > Nope, not quite :-)  ScientificName (as a tag name) will not be inside
> > of MyScientificName; however the *content* of MyScientificName will
> > include all of the same elements as the *content* of ScientificName
> >
> > MyScientificName to ScientificName is an inheritence relationship,  
> > not a
> > container relationship
> >
> > M
> >
> >
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Mark Wilkinson
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University of British Columbia
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