This demo is a tutorial on the functionality of the <x:act> web services.

Scenario:

By using the basic <x:act> web service, an XML file such as source.xml (upper left) containing a date in American format is to be converted into the XML file target.xml (lower left) containing the same date in German format. Additionally, the document root element shall change from "root" to "root_element".
As usual, the conversion takes place applying an XSLT stylesheet (right) to the source document. The <x:act> project provides the <x:act> Mapper as a graphic tool to aid the creation of XSLT stlyesheets.

View source.xml | View the stylesheet date_demo.xslt | View target.xml

Communication with the web service is done via SOAP messages. These SOAP messages contain processing information and, most important, the respective XML documents as attachment.

View the SOAP request | View the SOAP response

Try it

• Download the file source.xml to your local file system. To do so, right-click on this link and select "Save Target As...".
• Open the basic PHP client.
• Select the downloaded XML file as source document.
• Enter 'http://www.x-act.org/demo/date/date_demo.xslt' as stylesheet URL.
• Click on the button "save" in order to perform the conversion and save the converted file to your harddrive.