Category Archives: xml

Coding Schema Inheritance in PHP

Posted on October 21, 2008 by dimuthu

If you are thinking of writing a web service or a client based on a WSDL, you can easily generate the code for PHP or any other language using tools likes wsdl2php or other wsdl2xxx category tools. Then you don’t … Continue reading →

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XPath in SimpleXML

Posted on September 30, 2008 by dimuthu

SimpleXML as it name imply, is a very simple API to traverse XML implemented specially in PHP language. It is very similar to the XPath, but since it has more PHP friendly syntax PHP developers really like to use it. … Continue reading →

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Code First Approach of Developing Services with WSF/PHP 2.0

Posted on September 15, 2008 by dimuthu

In the code first approach, WSF/PHP will generate you the WSDL from your annotated PHP code. If you are familiar with older versions of WSF/PHP you should be already familiar with the syntax used in the annotations which are more … Continue reading →

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Axis2/C ADB 2 Minutes Introduction

Posted on September 3, 2008 by dimuthu

Building and Traversing XML are regular tasks for any Web Service developer. We may use DOM, AXIOM or even simple String manipulation functions to do that. Normally this takes a lot of time and effort. And if we are coding … Continue reading →

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Send Binary in SOAP with WSF/PHP 1.3.2

Posted on August 19, 2008 by dimuthu

In a valid XML you can only have text and you can not have binary characters. SOAP which in fact an XML is also having this issue. So it is not staright forward to send binary data in SOAP. But … Continue reading →

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XML Schema nillable=”true” vs minOccurs=”0″

Posted on August 18, 2008 by dimuthu

In a WSDL, XML Schema is the section where it define the message format for each operations, which eventually become the real API that users are interested. And it is the most tricky part of the WSDL. Nowadays there are … Continue reading →

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