create XML with XmlDocument and XmlElement

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I have to create the following xmlstructure but whatever I do it looks different.

How can I get this one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="schemas.xmlsoap.org/.../envelope" xmlns:ns1="http://tempuri.org/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <ns1:Import>
      <ns1:request>
        <ns1:AuthenticationKey>?</ns1:AuthenticationKey>
        <ns1:Title>?</ns1:Title>
        <ns1:Comments>?</ns1:Comments>
        <ns1:File>Pw==</ns1:File>
        <ns1:Filename>?</ns1:Filename>
        <ns1:ImportType>?</ns1:ImportType>
        <ns1:SendStatusMail>true</ns1:SendStatusMail>
        <ns1:ApplicationUri>?</ns1:ApplicationUri>
        <ns1:ZipFile>Pw==</ns1:ZipFile>
        <ns1:ZipFilename>?</ns1:ZipFilename>
      </ns1:request>
    </ns1:Import>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

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Martin Dráb 237,882 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Could you be a bit more specific, please? Which part are you struggling with?

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well as I discribed I cannot get the format .

when I try to create the xml by code with XmlDocument and XmlElement class I get the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="schemas.xmlsoap.org/.../envelope" xmlns:ns1="http://tempuri.org/"> <Body> <Import> <AuthenticationKey /> <Title></Title> <Comments>automatic exort from Dynamics AX</Comments> <File><![CDATA[...]]></File> <FileName>Employees_IN.xml</FileName> <ImportType>StaffingXML</ImportType> <SendStatusMail>false</SendStatusMail> </Import> </Body>

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You have many ways to do this. You could use .Net reflection to create the elements using the namespaces with which you could generate XML files. Alternatively you could just build the whole string yourself.

Since you just want to use a SOAP-envelope, why don't you write the whole communication stuff in a C# Wrapper that you could just call in AX as a Reference?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13779171/construct-soap-envelope-xml-using-c-sharp

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well the xml itself is generated. I just can't get the namespace ns1 to the single elements

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Martin Dráb 237,882 Most Valuable Professional on at

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All right, it seems that you know how to create elements and set values, but not how to work with namespaces.

First of all, notice that the second argument of XMLDocument.createElement2() is namespace URI. If you want to say that, for instance, the namespace of the Import element is http://tempuri.org/, you should use this argument.

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I tried that as well but than I get someting like this:

<SOAPENV:Body xmlns:SOAPENV="SOAP-ENV">

...

</SOAPENV:Body>

but it should be

<SOAPENV:Body>

...

</SOAPENV:Body>

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Martin Dráb 237,882 Most Valuable Professional on at

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xmlns:SOAPENV is an attribute named SOAPENV in a namespace with xmlns prefix, which has nothing to do with what you intended.

Please show us your code.

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Hi Martin

I played around with it right now. Currently it look like this:

str SOAPENV_ENV = ("schemas.xmlsoap.org/.../envelope"); str SOAPENV_NS = ("http://tempuri.org/"); System.Net.WebRequest request = null; System.Net.WebResponse response = null; XmlDocument soapDoc; XmlElement soapEnvelope; XmlElement soapHeader; XmlElement soapBody; XmlElement soapImport; XmlElement soapField; XmlElement soapInnerField; System.Xml.XmlWriter xmlWriter; System.IO.StreamWriter writer; System.IO.StreamReader reader; //System.Web.HttpResponse httpResponse; System.Exception netException; str result, errorText; Filename fPath; Filename fName; Filename fType; str fileNameString; ; [fPath, fName, fType] = fileNameSplit(this.parmFileName()); fileNameString = fName + fType; try { soapDoc = XmlDocument::newBlank(); soapDoc.createXmlDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", ""); soapEnvelope = soapDoc.createElement("SOAP-ENV:Envelope"); soapEnvelope.setAttribute("xmlns:SOAP-ENV", SOAPENV_ENV); soapEnvelope.setAttribute("xmlns:ns1", SOAPENV_NS); soapBody = soapDoc.createElement("SOAP-ENV:Body"); //soapBody.prefix("SOAP-ENV"); soapImport = soapDoc.createElement("ns1:Import"); //soapImport.prefix("ns1"); soapField = soapDoc.createElement("AuthenticationKey"); soapField.prefix("ns1"); soapField.appendChild(soapDoc.CreateTextNode("")); soapImport.appendChild(soapField); soapField = soapDoc.createElement("ns1:Title"); soapField.appendChild(soapDoc.CreateTextNode("")); soapImport.appendChild(soapField);

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Martin Dráb 237,882 Most Valuable Professional on at

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You get those attributes because that's what you put into your code. It seems that you don't know what a namespace is, am I right?

I don't have time to go to theory right now, but you can look here how to add namespaces and their prefixes and I already told you how to specify namespaces when adding elements. And throw away those attributes.

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well I am just to stupid for this but I still cannot get how to create xml nodes with just the Prefix of the namespace.

But thanks for your help

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