December 16, 2001 - Soap Messages without Formatting

Yehuda Shiran December 16, 2001
Soap Messages without Formatting
Tips: December 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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Web services can return complicated SOAP messages. Let's take the StockQuote service, hosted by www.eggheadcafe.com, for example. It goes to www.yahoo.com and requests the quotes for YHOO, IBM, and MSFT. The returned SOAP message from yahoo.com before reformatting is as follows:

You can see that the message cannot be displayed as is to the user. One of the ways to reformat it is with an XSL Transformations (XSLT) style sheet. Now you know what XSLT is used for.