Using Source objects

A Provider implementation can accept and return objects that are derived from the javax.xml.transform.Source interface. Source objects are low level objects that hold XML documents. Each Source implementation provides methods that access the stored XML documents and manipulate its contents. The following objects implement the Source interface:

• DOMSource holds XML messages as a Document Object Model(DOM) tree. The XML message is stored as a set of Node objects that can be accessed using the getNode() method. Nodes can be updated or added to the DOM tree using the setNode() method.

• SAXSource holds XML messages as a Simple API for XML (SAX) object. SAX objects contain an InputSource object that contains the raw data and an XMLReader object that parses the raw data.

• StreamSource holds XML messages as a data stream. The data stream can be manipulated as would any other data stream.

  Information noteNote: When using Source objects the developer is responsible for ensuring that all required binding specific wrappers are added to the message. For example, when interacting with a service expecting SOAP messages, the developer must ensure that the required SOAP envelope is added to the outgoing request and that the SOAP envelope's contents are correct.