NAMESPACE_ERR: An attempt is made to create or change an object in a way which is incorrect with regard to namespaces

java xml webservice-client xalan saaj
Java Guy picture Java Guy · Oct 27, 2010 · Viewed 48.9k times · Source

Trying to retrieve the SOAP body from a SOAP response, but getting this error: 

NAMESPACE_ERR: An attempt is made to create or change an object in a way which is incorrect with regard to namespaces.

Document doc = soapResMsg.getSOAPBody().extractContentAsDocument(); -- Exception is thrown here
org.dom4j.io.DOMReader d4Reader = new org.dom4j.io.DOMReader();
org.dom4j.Document d4doc = d4Reader.read(doc);

Using Saaj1.4

What would be a fix for this?

Answer

Julius picture Julius · Jan 8, 2017

I solved this by making the DocumentBuilderFactory namespace aware:

DocumentBuilderFactory.setNamespaceAware(true)

Related questions

java.util.Date to XMLGregorianCalendar

Isn't there a convenient way of getting from a java.util.Date to a XMLGregorianCalendar?

Read More
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog

I have a Java based web service client connected to Java web service (implemented on the Axis1 framework). I am getting following exception in my log file: Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog. at …

Read More
How to pretty print XML from Java?

I have a Java String that contains XML, with no line feeds or indentations. I would like to turn it into a String with nicely formatted XML. How do I do this? String unformattedXml = "<tag><nested>…

Read More