Question on SOAP compatibility

[Robin Diederen]

Currently I'm working on a Python SOAP client for Zimbra (using ZSI as SOAP implementation). ZSI doesn't support SOAP messages containing "inline" tags, such as: <name="test"/>; ZSI always encodes these messages as <name>test</name>. Can the Zimbra SOAP interface handle this, in stead of the specified tags? Or will this cause troubles?

[Coilcore]

I'm not quite sure what you mean by an inline tag. Do you mean attributes? for example:

<node attribute="somevalue" />

I would be surprised that any SOAP API would convert attributes into content because it would make something like this into nonsense:

<node attribute="somevalue">text content</node>

Zimbra uses attributes often as key values so you will often see large sets of nodes that look like:

<attr name="key">value</attr>

[Robin Diederen]

Well, take the SOAP AuthRequest call for example

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
<soap:Header>
<context xmlns="urn:zimbra">
<nosession/>
<format type="js"/>
</context>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<AuthRequest xmlns="urn:zimbraAccount">
<account by="name">
robin
</account>
<password>
password
</password>
</AuthRequest>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

With these inline tags, I mean constructs like

<nosession/>
<format type="js"/>

Thanks!

[schemers]

The following two tags will parse the same via the XML parser, so you should be ok:

<nosession/>
<nosession></nosession>