Set Property from XML Response
I have the following response from my web service and I'm trying to setup a chain of calls to the web service using the HANDLE element from this repsonse. I'm new to soapUI and I was hoping to get a...
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AlumniHi!
the problem is that the actual payload of the message is wrapped in a CDATA, which means that it is essentially returned as a string, not XML, which is the reason the outline/overview editors show it as such. If you want to extract something from the XML in this string you will first have to extract the string (as the value of the return element) and then parse that string as XML to which you can apply xpath-logic to do your value extraction.
Does that make sense? Is it ok if I use your XML as an example in a related blog-post (this comes up quite often.. )?
let me know!
regards,
/Ole
eviware.com
the problem is that the actual payload of the message is wrapped in a CDATA, which means that it is essentially returned as a string, not XML, which is the reason the outline/overview editors show it as such. If you want to extract something from the XML in this string you will first have to extract the string (as the value of the return element) and then parse that string as XML to which you can apply xpath-logic to do your value extraction.
Does that make sense? Is it ok if I use your XML as an example in a related blog-post (this comes up quite often.. )?
let me know!
regards,
/Ole
eviware.com