HeaderElements must be namespace qualified when create soap client

[Ramesh Desai]

Hi ,

i am new to webservices.

i am facing problem when creating soap request.
error message : HeaderElements must be namespace qualified


can some body help me.


thanks,
Ramesh

[Dan Drillich]

Ramesh,

Can you please show us the SOAP request?

SOAP Header Element says -

Note: All immediate child elements of the Header element must be namespace-qualified.

It's interesting to look at the SOAP schema -

    
 <xs:element name="Header" type="tns:Header" />
  <xs:complexType name="Header" >
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0" 
              maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
    </xs:sequence>
    <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
  </xs:complexType>
  

W3C XML Schema Design Patterns: Dealing With Change says -

In fact "##other" really means "any well-formed XML that is not from the target namespace of the type being defined" excluding elements with no namespace..

Regards,
Dan

[Ivan Krizsan]

Hi!
The SOAP 1.1 specification says:

A header entry is identified by its fully qualified element name, which consists of the namespace URI and the local name. All immediate child elements of the SOAP Header element MUST be namespace-qualified.

Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/#_Toc478383497

If you look at this example:

<SOAP-ENV:Header>
   <t:Transaction
      xmlns:t="some-URI" SOAP-ENV:mustUnderstand="1">
          5
   </t:Transaction>
</SOAP-ENV:Header>

You see that the <Transaction> element is prefixed by a t (and : too, but that is not part of the prefix). The t is the namespace prefix which says that the <Transaction> element belongs to the namespace with the prefix t.
The error message you get is, as far as I understand, because a header in your SOAP request lacks this namespace prefix.
Best wishes!

[Ramesh Desai]

Dan,

below is my SOAP request header part,

<soapenv:Header>
<wsse:Security soapenv:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd">
<wsse:UsernameToken wsu:Id="UsernameToken-11707096" xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd">
<wsse:Username>USERID</wsse:Username>
<wsse:Password Type="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0#PasswordText">PASSWORD</wsse:Password>
</wsse:UsernameToken>
</wsse:Security>
</soapenv:Header>

i have completed body part, but unable to write code for header.