[jbossws-dev] SAAJ compatibility tests

[Alejandro Guízar]

Lance,

I am a member of the JBoss Web Services team. The project lead, Thomas 
Diesler, indicated you as the person to go to when questions/issues 
about the CTS emerge.

I have one such question with regard to SAAJ tests. I was hoping you 
could help me, either directly or by forwarding my question to the SAAJ 
team at Sun.

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The test case saaj/api/javax_xml_soap/SOAPElement contains two tests, 
addTextNodeTest1 and addTextNodeTest2, that verify the addition of 
non-whitespace text to SOAPBody and SOAPHeader under SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 
1.2. Of the four assertions, only adding Text to a SOAPHeader under SOAP 
1.2 is expected to throw an exception.

No explicit requirement on Text children of Elements appears in the SOAP 
1.1 specification. This is consistent with the CTS assertions: text 
nodes are always accepted.

The table below summarizes explicit requirements on 'character 
information item' children of 'element information items' defined by the 
SOAP 1.2 specification.

EII		CII content	Significant?
---		---		---
Envelope	white space 	no
Header		white space	no
HeaderElement	any character	yes
Body		white space	yes
BodyElement	any character	yes
Fault		white space	no
Detail		white space	yes
DetailEntry	any character	yes

Given the table above, adding non-whitespace text to SOAPHeader or 
SOAPBody under SOAP 1.2 is invalid. This applies to SOAPEnvelope, 
SOAPFault and Detail as well. The CTS expects SOAPHeader to throw an 
exception but not SOAPBody. Other elements are not even tested.

What is the rationale behind requiring SOAPHeader to throw an exception, 
but not other elements?

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Thanks,

Alejandro Guizar
Senior Software Engineer
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
E: aguizar at redhat.com
M: 512-905-0841