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Manually Creating WSDL - Problem with Attributes

I'm creating a WSDL in PHP to be consumed by a .NET app. The issue I'm having is with Attributes on my elements. Here's what I have in the WSDL:

 <schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://ws.myapp.com" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">

<xsd:complexType name="SynchronizationTransaction">

 <xsd:sequence>

  <xsd:element name="SynchronizationTransactionHeader" type="tns:SynchronizationTransactionHeaderType" /> 

  </xsd:sequence>

  </xsd:complexType>

 <xsd:complexType name="SynchronizationTransactionHeaderType">

<xsd:sequence>

  <xsd:element name="test" type="xsd:string" /> 

  </xsd:sequence>

  <xsd:attribute name="date" type="xsd:string" /> 

  </xsd:complexType>

  </schema>

When I try to connect my .NET simulator to it, I get this message:
"Attributes are not supported with encoded SOAP. Please change definition of schema type 'SynchronizationTransactionHeaderType' from namespace 'http://ws.myapp.com': use elements (not attributes) for fields/parameters."

The XML schema is set by the client, so I'm forced to have these attributes.

Thanks.

PS I'm normally a .NET developer and I HATE PHP. :-)

MShanahan

The issue was not with my WSDL, but rather with the PHP framework we were using and how it was setting up the rest of the web service message. In the Input and Output section of the WSDL, it was assigning an encoding to the soap element. I created a sample Web Service project with VS, looked at how it does it, and changed this PHP framework to do the same thing. My soap element now looks like this: