note 87789 deleted from function.soap-soapclient-soapcall by danbrown

Note Submitter: Anonymous ---- In response to ryan's comment, I thought I would mention I solved passing XMLNode (actually XMLElement) objects in and out of an ASP.NET WebService by defining custom XML serializers and deserialisers to the SoapClient constructors as a "typemap" option that mapped DOMElements back and forth via "xml_to" and "xml_from" by latching on to the provided WSDL types. Incidentally, this seemed the only clean way to do this as the WSDL seemed to specify <xsd:any> types for these and there does not seem to be any other serialization "pickling" hooks for defining such. Unfortunately, this seems to be lightly documented at best (some of the best "documentation" for this came from the PHP SOAP extension regression test suites that are in the extension code).