From: "Eder Quiñones" <eder.sq@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T09:21:26+09:00
Subject: XML Parser (SOAP Request)


First of all, sorry for my English.

Hello, I've been working on a new MSNP (Version 13) client for Ruby, the
only problem that I Have is that this version of the protocol has lots
of SOAP Requests and I've been trying the smart way of parsing it.

So, what i receive from the server is:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <soap:Header xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
       <ServiceHeader
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
           <Version
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">11.02.1331.0000</Version>
       </ServiceHeader>
   </soap:Header>
   <soap:Body xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
       <FindMembershipResponse
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
           <FindMembershipResult
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
               <Services
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
                   <Service
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
                       <Memberships
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
                           <Membership
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
                               <MemberRole
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">Allow</MemberRole>
                               <Members
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
                                   <Member
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
xsi:type="PassportMember"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >
                                       <MembershipId
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">2</MembershipId>
                                       <Type
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">Passport</Type>
                                       <State
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">Accepted</State>
                                       <Deleted
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">false</Deleted>
                                       <LastChanged
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">2005-08-05T17:34:12.7870000-07:00</LastChanged>
                                       <Changes
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"/>
                                       <PassportName
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">alice@passport.com</PassportName>
                                       <IsPassportNameHidden
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">false</IsPassportNameHidden>
                                       <PassportId
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">0</PassportId>
                                       <CID
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">0</CID>
                                       <PassportChanges
xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"/>
                                   </Member>
                               </Members>
                           </Membership>

What I need to retrieve is everything inside the
<membership></membership> tags, for example (following the xml above):

 * in MemberRole, I need what it's of the tag -> Allow
 * in Member, I need the value of the attribute xsi:type ->
PassportMember
 * in everything else, I need what it's inside of the next tags
   -> 2
   -> Passport
   -> Accepted
   -> False
   ...
   until </Membership>

* Note: everything that I receive from the server it's not splited by
end-lines.

Any help of parsing this?

Thanks in advance.
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