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toniboi
Occasional Contributor
14 years ago

How to retrieving a specific node from a soap response?

Hello all, this is my first post here and I am new to SoapUI and SoapUI Pro. I came across a property transfer problem recently, and I tried with no luck in googling it for the solution. So I was pr...
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M_McDonald
Super Contributor
14 years ago
A CDATA section hides it's content from any XML parser, so you need an intermediate step to get the NewDataSet XML. If you put the following in a Groovy script step

def gu = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils( context )
def responseAsXml = context.expand( '${MyRequest#ResponseAsXml}' )
def holder = gu.getXmlHolder( responseAsXml )
holder.namespaces["ns"] = "http://www.webserviceX.NET"
return holder.getNodeValue( "//ns:GetCountriesResult[1]" )


the step will return 

<NewDataSet>
 <Table>
  <Name>Afghanistan, Islamic State of</Name>
 </Table>
 <Table>
  <Name>Albania</Name>
 </Table>
 <Table>
  <Name>Algeria</Name>
 </Table>
 <Table>
  <Name>American Samoa</Name>
 </Table>
</NewDataSet>

Then you can point to the Groovy step as the source for your PropertyTransfer.

//NewDataSet[1]/Table[1]/Name[1]