change soap prefixes in php

Question

i\'m rewriting a soap web service from .net to php. by default, php is giving me tags that look like this:

Answer 1

If you don't want to use Regular expressions, I've done this quick class implementation which uses DomXPath and DomDocument to cleanup the XML and append the namespace attribute at the node level.

loadXML($request);

        // Create a XPath object
        $path = new DOMXPath($dom);

        // Search the nodes to fix
        $nodesToFix = $path->query('//SOAP-ENV:Envelope/SOAP-ENV:Body/*', null, true);

        // Remove unwanted namespaces
        $this->fixNamespace($nodesToFix, 'ns1', 'http://tempuri.org/');

        // Save the modified SOAP request
        $request = $dom->saveXML();

        return parent::__doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version);
    }

    public function fixNamespace(DOMNodeList $nodes, $namespace, $value) {
        // Remove namespace from envelope
        $nodes->item(0)
                ->ownerDocument
                ->firstChild
                ->removeAttributeNS($value, $namespace);

        //iterate through the node list and remove namespace

        foreach ($nodes as $node) {

            $nodeName = str_replace($namespace . ':', '', $node->nodeName);
            $newNode = $node->ownerDocument->createElement($nodeName);

            // Append namespace at the node level
            $newNode->setAttribute('xmlns', $value);

            // And replace former node
            $node->parentNode->replaceChild($newNode, $node);
        }
    }
}