MS Word document using SOAP

["Rory Braybrook (DSLAK)" <Ro...@datacom.co.nz>]

Can the object returned from a SOAP call be a MS Word document ?

I am thinking of sending some parameters to a "document generator" (which
uses Word) which populates the document and then returns it. The client is
Java. The server is MS.

How would I do this ? Would I have to encode to something like Base64 ?

Any pointers or hints would be appreciated.

Thanks

Re: MS Word document using SOAP

["David B. Bitton" <da...@codenoevil.com>]

Sure.  All you need to do is base64 encode the Word doc and mark the return
datatype as xsl:base64binary.  I am doing this in reverse where I create a
PDF within Java and return is to a SOAP Toolkit 2.0 client.  Use the
org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.Base64 class for decoding the base64 binary
data.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rory Braybrook (DSLAK)" <Ro...@datacom.co.nz>
To: <so...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 6:17 PM
Subject: MS Word document using SOAP


> Can the object returned from a SOAP call be a MS Word document ?
>
> I am thinking of sending some parameters to a "document generator" (which
> uses Word) which populates the document and then returns it. The client is
> Java. The server is MS.
>
> How would I do this ? Would I have to encode to something like Base64 ?
>
> Any pointers or hints would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
>