Returning nulls with minOccurs set to 0

[Eugene Shershnev]

Hi All,   I have a simple test to check the interop issues between Axis 1.2 RC3 server and .Net client.   A function returns a String so the element in the WSDL is defined as follows:   <element name="nullableStringOutResponse">   <complexType>     <sequence>       <element name="nullableStringOutReturn" nillable="true" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string"/>     </sequence>   </complexType> </element>   and when that function returns null the response looks like this:   <soapenv:Body>   <nullableStringOutResponse xmlns="http://test.enterprise.ent">     <nullableStringOutReturn xsi:nil="true"/>   </nullableStringOutResponse> </soapenv:Body>   What I was actually expecting is:   <soapenv:Body>   <nullableStringOutResponse xmlns="http://test.enterprise.ent" /> </soapenv:Body>   With minOccurs="0" there is no need for Axis to serialize a null string as it does.   This does not cause any problem (at least in my case), but why send any extra bytes when they're not required?   Thanks, Eugene