Using Axis2 services from Javascript (by removing the XML namespaces)

If you want to call an Axis2 service from Javascript you will face the problem that the XML response of an Axis2 service call contains XML namespaces - something Javascript doesn’t like in cross-browser-friendly way. The idea to fix this issue is to make an XSLT transformation directly from Axis2 that removes the unnecessary namespaces. First we need an XSLT transformation that will do the job: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output indent="no" method="xml"></xsl:output> <xsl:template match="/|comment()|processing-instruction()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="*"> <xsl:element name="{local-name()}"> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"></xsl:apply-templates> </xsl:element> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="@*"> <xsl:attribute name="{local-name()}"> <xsl:value-of select="....

January 27, 2009 · 2 min · admin