PM15249: TYPE TREE ELEMENTS CREATED BY WSDL IMPORTER FAIL VALIDATION WHEN DATA CONTAINS SHORT FORM XML EMPTY TAGS

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) WSDL Importer is
  used to create a type tree that can be used in a map to create
  and parse the input and output of a WebService.
  
  When parsing the output of the WebService, if short form XML
  empty tags are included as part of the data, the parsing map may
  fail validation with the following error.
  
  INPUT X exists, but its type is in error.
  
  The map validates successfully if the data is modified by
  changing any short form XML empty tags to the long form XML
  empty tags.
  
  For example, change short form XML empty tag:
  
  <DATA/>
  
  To long form XML empty tag:
  
  <DATA></DATA>
  

Local fix

• WTXCQ - WTX00034327
  PB / PB
  Circumvention: Modify the data by changing any short form
  XML empty tags to the long form XML empty tags.
  

Problem summary

• Users Affected:
  WebSphere Transformation Extender SOAP users that are parsing
  SOAP responses that contain empty header fields or message
  parameters.
  
  Problem Description:
  The SOAP response is not validated when using the type tree
  generated from the WSDL Importer.
  
  Platforms Affected:
  Windows
  

Problem conclusion

• The WSDL Importer handles empty XML elements specified in the
  SOAP header, differentiates between the "rpc" and "document"
  binding parameters listed in a message definition, and uses the
  proper order of the message parts when constructing the type
  tree.  Before this fix, SOAP responses that included empty
  elements would fail validation, "rpc" and "document" SOAP
  binding styles were not differentiated during type tree
  construction, and the message parameters were not always ordered
  properly in the type tree.
  
  Delivered in:
  8.1.0.6, 8.2.0.5, 8.3.0.3
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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Fix information

• Fixed component name

  WTX PK SAP R/3

• Fixed component ID

  5724Q6800

Applicable component levels

• R820 PSY

     UP

• R830 PSY

     UP