Change the actual XML on the wire

[Robin Berjon <ro...@expway.fr>]

Hi,

I am pretty certain that what I wish to do is doable with Axis, but I'm 
not exactly sure of how to approach it. I need to control the format of 
the XML that is sent on the wire. Not format as the way the elements are 
arranged but the actual bytes. The reason for this is that to control 
the encoding of the document that will be transmitted, naturally both 
for reading and writing.

The JAX-RPC spec in section 19 shows an XMLWriter/XMLReader pair of 
classes that would do the job prefectly well but that part of JAX-RPC is 
non-prescriptive and I do not see those classes in Axis. I looked for 
equivalents but it appears that there are several places that could be 
XML writers or readers and I'm not sure which is the one that actually 
ends up creating what will be shipped over the wire.

Note that controlling the encoding would be ok, but I'd very much prefer 
to intervene on the XML generation/parsing step.

Thus, my questions are:

   1) which interface do I need to implement to manipulate the raw XML?
   2) once I've implemented it, how do I plug it in so that it takes the 
place of the default one?

Thanks in advance for any answer or pointers, I'm willing to contribute 
patches to Axis if such functionality is not available (even though 
quite obviously I'd rather be able to use it directly).

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Robin Berjon <ro...@expway.fr>
Research Engineer, Expway
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