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ASA 9.0.2 I have a Web Service that exposes an XML result set, my problem is that I want complete control over the XML generated, and Sybase keeps wrapping a <root> element around my result. I already have a root element by another name (other than 'root'). How can I stop the addition of this 'root' node? Example of my result set: <Settings> <SettingOne>SettingValue</SettingOne> </Settings> Sybase is adding <root></root> tags around that result, I need to remove/suppress/prevent this .. |
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The design of the web service type 'XML' is to:
There is currently no plans to change this behaviour. You have two options:
Type 'RAW' web services will return to the client exactly the output from the SQL procedure with no additional text added. E.g. CREATE SERVICE "MyGroup/GetSettings" TYPE 'RAW' AUTHORIZATION ON USER DBA AS CALL sp_GetSettings(; CREATE PROCEDURE sp_GetSettings() RESULT ( rawdoc long varchar ) BEGIN SELECT XMLELEMENT(NAME "Settings", XMLELEMENT(NAME "SettingOne", 1)) FROM DUMMY; END; Note that the sp_GetSettings procedure declares its result set as a long varchar. Since the output is a character type the web service call will automatically do character set conversion between the database character set and the client character set as needed. If you don't want this character set conversion to occur you need to either:
HTH Mark, Thank you for the answer, I appreciate the help.
(06 Dec '11, 16:47)
Doug Troy
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Hi Doug, Are you looking for the '@mp:xmltext' property to get a subtree of the XML document in XML form? SELECT * FROM openxml( '<root><Settings> <SettingOne>SettingValue</SettingOne> </Settings></root>', '//*' ) WITH (ID int '@mp:id', parent int '../@mp:id', name char(128) '@mp:localname', othertext XML '@mp:xmltext' ) ORDER BY ID; Produces these results in DBISQL's results window (cut-and-pasted): ID,parent,name,othertext 5,,'root',<root><Settings> <SettingOne>SettingValue</SettingOne> </Settings></root> 15,5,'Settings',<Settings> <SettingOne>SettingValue</SettingOne> </Settings> 28,15,'SettingOne',<SettingOne>SettingValue</SettingOne> Dan, Thanks for responding. The short answer to your question is "no", I have created a Web Services in the DB, my service is backed by a Stored Procedure that creates an XML result; so my Service type is XML. The problem I have is that the Sybase Web Service is adding a node called 'root' around my result set. I want to prevent Sybase from adding the 'root' node to the XML result.
(06 Dec '11, 15:56)
Doug Troy
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Please show us exactly what you are doing.
Ok, so I have a Service that's being created as follows:
CREATE SERVICE "MyGroup/GetSettings" TYPE 'XML' AUTHORIZATION ON USER DBA AS CALL sp_GetSettings()
backing stored procedure that returns an XML result set like:
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_GetSettings AS
SELECT XMLELEMENT(NAME "Settings", XMLELEMENT(NAME "SettingOne", 1)) FROM DUMMY
When I hit the web service, the XML result returned adds a node called 'root' around my result; that's what I'm trying to overcome; I want the parent node, the root node, to be 'Settings'