• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
  • Overview
  • Obtaining WSDL URLs
  • Modifying a SOAP Request
  • Testing a Web Service
  • Saving a Web Service Call
    • Using Web Service Calls as XML
    • How to Save a Web Service Call
  • Querying a Web Service
  • Creating XQuery from a Web Service Call
  • Creating a Web Service Call Scenario
• Chapter 12: Working with WSDL Documents
• Chapter 13: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 14: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 15: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 16: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 17: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 18: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Using Web Service Calls as XML

In addition to opening a Web service call in the Web Service Call Composer for testing purposes, you can open a Web service call as an XML document anywhere in Stylus Studio - in the XML editor, or as a source document in the XQuery mapper for example. When you open a Web service call as an XML document, Stylus Studio automatically executes the SOAP request and displays the SOAP response.

Consider the following Web service call, stock.wsc. The Web service operation used in this example returns current stock quote and other information based on the ticker symbols provided as parameters. Here is the SOAP request composed by Stylus Studio:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
               
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAPSDK1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:SOAPSDK2="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns:SOAPSDK3="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:SOAP-
ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
               
	SOAP-ENV:Body>
               
		<s0:GetStockQuotes xmlns:s0="http://swanandmokashi.com/">
               
			<s0:QuoteTicker>prgs</s0:QuoteTicker>
               
		</s0:GetStockQuotes>
               
	</SOAP-ENV:Body>
               
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
               

            

	<soap:Body>
               
		<GetStockQuotesResponse xmlns="http://swanandmokashi.com/">
               
			<GetStockQuotesResult>
               
				<Quote>
               
					<CompanyName>PROGRESS SOFT</CompanyName>
               
					<StockTicker>PRGS</StockTicker>
               
					<StockQuote>20.10</StockQuote>
               
					<LastUpdated>10:17am</LastUpdated>
               
					<Change>+0.03</Change>
               
					<OpenPrice>20.05</OpenPrice>
               
					<DayHighPrice>20.40</DayHighPrice>
               
					<DayLowPrice>20.00</DayLowPrice>
               
					<Volume>13200</Volume>
               
					<MarketCap>695.1M</MarketCap>
               
					<YearRange>11.50 - 24.06</YearRange>
               
				</Quote>
               
			</GetStockQuotesResult>
               
		</GetStockQuotesResponse>
               
	</soap:Body>
               
</soap:Envelope>
               

            

And here is the SOAP response returned by the Web service:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
               
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
               

            

The saved Web service call can be used as the source document for an XQuery in the XQuery mapper, as shown in Figure 371:

Figure 371. Using a Web Service Call to Compose an XQuery

XQueries composed using a Web service call as a source document return real-time data from the Web service as a result.