How to retrieve result from WebService response? - web-services

Question

I am new to WebService. I am getting the following response from the WebService
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<S:Header/>
<S:Body><ns2:getGreetingResponse xmlns:ns2="http://wsserver.myfirst.com/">
<return>Hello Cheepu</return>
</ns2:getGreetingResponse></S:Body></S:Envelope>
Result in the XML is "Hello Cheepu". How can i retrieve that from the response.

Answer 1

You may load the XML DOM with code such as:
if (window.DOMParser)
{
parser=new DOMParser();
xmlDoc=parser.parseFromString(text,"text/xml");
}
else // Internet Explorer
{
xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xmlDoc.async="false";
xmlDoc.loadXML(text);
}
Then traverse the DOM to the element.
This code is for javaScrip at the browser. Similar code in Java as given in http://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-read-xml-file-in-java-dom-parser/