[AXIS-2682] wsdl2Java generates invalid empty string namespaces

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: WSDL processing
• Environment: Eclipse 3.2 on Mac OS 10.4.10 (Intel)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Christoph Ludwig
• Created: 22/Jul/07 19:45
• Updated: 10/Dec/08 13:00
• Resolved: 10/Dec/08 13:00

Description

I generated with WSDL2Java a service skeleton and client stubs for the attached WSDL which I used for interoperability tests. When I investigated errors, I found the following in the generated SOAP request:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body>
<AcceptBase64 xmlns="http://www.textgrid.de/tests/bytearray/">
<data xmlns="">SGVsbG8gV29ybGQh</data>
<length xmlns="">12</length>
</AcceptBase64>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Note the empty namespaces in the data and length elements. The W3C recommendation "Namespaces in XML 1.0" states explicitly: "The empty string, though it is a legal URI reference, cannot be used as a namespace name" (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/#iri-use).