# How to parse an WSDL file?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-parse-an-wsdl-file/74807>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 7, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-parse-an-wsdl-file/74807 "2006-11-07T10:57:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![matrixise](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@matrixise](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matrixise)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-parse-an-wsdl-file/74807/1 "2006-11-07T10:57:34Z")

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Hi all,

I would like to use the wsdl api from stdlib, but I didn’t understand.  
So, I will try to parse my wsdl file with REXML.

Is there a small example of the use of this API ?

Thanks

Stephane

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**Author:** ![matrixise](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@matrixise](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matrixise)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-parse-an-wsdl-file/74807/2 "2006-11-07T10:57:38Z")

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Hi Stephane,

soap4r can use REXML as the XML parser. I think you can use it’s WSDL  
parsing code as a good example.

[http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/soap4r](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/soap4r)

Lei Ming

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**Author:** ![matrixise](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@matrixise](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matrixise)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-parse-an-wsdl-file/74807/3 "2006-11-07T10:57:38Z")

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Lei Ming wrote:

> Hi Stephane,
> 
> soap4r can use REXML as the XML parser. I think you can use it’s WSDL  
> parsing code as a good example.
> 
> [http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/soap4r](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/soap4r)  
> Thanks, because I would like to generate a C++ code from this WSDL with  
> Ruby. Because there is some information from this file to indicate if a  
> data is mandatory or not.

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**Author:** ![matrixise](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@matrixise](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matrixise)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-parse-an-wsdl-file/74807/4 "2006-11-07T11:00:15Z")

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Hi,

Stephane W. wrote:

> > soap4r can use REXML as the XML parser. I think you can use it’s WSDL  
> > parsing code as a good example.
> > 
> > [http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/soap4r](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/soap4r)  
> > Thanks, because I would like to generate a C++ code from this WSDL with  
> > Ruby. Because there is some information from this file to indicate if a  
> > data is mandatory or not.

lib/wsdl/classDefCreator.rb (and friends) generates Ruby code from WSDL  
with Ruby. It may help you. Please find the latest snapshot release  
from [http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r](http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r) instead of stdlib.

Regards,  
// NaHi  
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