# Send XML Document with SOAP

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/send-xml-document-with-soap/52355>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 13, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/send-xml-document-with-soap/52355 "2006-01-13T01:12:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arlen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@Arlen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arlen)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/send-xml-document-with-soap/52355/1 "2006-01-13T01:12:58Z")

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Hello,

yes it’s another ruby-nuby question but i cant find the right docs so I  
hope either someone has an answer or can provide links to what i havent  
been able to find.

I am trying to call a wsdl web service running on .net server with a  
ruby client. I can make the request and with a wiredump I see the SOAP  
request and responce XML files, the files are correct but I am not sure  
why I can not access the results.

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require “rexml/document”  
service = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create\_rpc\_driver  
result = service.GetAnswer(:question=\>‘tuition’,:id=\>‘64’)  
doc = REXML::Document.new result  
render\_text doc.to\_s

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this is what I get  
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“SOAP::Mapping::Object is not a valid input stream. It must be  
either a String, IO, StringIO or Source.”

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why is the result not an XML string? it appears as if result is empty  
eveI have tried converting the result to a sting but it give me another  
error suggesting that the result variable is empty  
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#\<REXML::ParseException: malformed XML: missing tag start  
Line:  
Position:  
Last 80 unconsumed characters:  
SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x3761048\>

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any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

thanks, Arlen Thurber

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**Author:** ![Arlen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@Arlen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arlen)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/send-xml-document-with-soap/52355/2 "2006-01-13T01:14:45Z")

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here is the SOAP responce I am recieving, is there a problem with the  
way it is trying to send an XML document with in the SOAP responce? It  
works fine in JAVA but i am wondering if there is an issue with the way  
RUBY parses the SOAP responce.

 \<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?\>
- \<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=“[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/)”  
xmlns:xsi=“[http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance](http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance)”  
xmlns:xsd=“[http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema](http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema)”\>
- soap:Body
- \<?xml version="1.0" 

encoding=“utf-16”?\>186860\<![CDATA[

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]]\>  
  
\</soap:Body\>  
\</soap:Envelope\>