From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2002-03-19T10:45:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Xml Serialization for Ruby

Hi Chris,

This is FYI thing, too.

> From: Chris Morris [mailto:chrismo@charter.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:52 AM

> I'd rather see this xml:
> 
>   <Person>
>     <name>Chris Morris</name>
>     <age>30</age>
>     <height>72</height>
>   </Person>
> 
> ... than this:
> 
>   <Person>
>     <String name="name">Chris Morris</String>
>     <Integer name="age">30</Integer>
>     <Integer name="height">72</Integer>
>   </Person>

SOAP XML instance which does not include type
informations looks like the formar.  For example,
SOAP engine comes with ASP.NET does not dump type
information by default.  The engine read WSDL when
load to detect those type.

SOAP4R can dump typeless XML instance but cannot load
it because I have not yet finished WSDL4R.  sigh.

require 'soap/marshal'

def aspDotNetMarshal( obj )
  soapObj = SOAP::RPCUtils.obj2soap( obj )
  soapObj.name = obj.type.to_s
  soapObj.encodingStyle = SOAP::EncodingStyleHandlerASPDotNet::Namespace
  SOAP::Processor.marshal( nil, soapObj )
end

class Person
  attr_accessor :name, :age, :height
end

o = Person.new
o.name = 'NaHi'
o.age = 32
o.height = 173

puts aspDotNetMarshal( o )

=>

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <Person>
    <name>NaHi</name>
    <age>32</age>
    <height>173</height>
  </Person>
</env:Envelope>