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PEPPOL Document Validation

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Demonstrates how to call a Web service to validate your PEPPOL documents according to the latest PEPPOL rules. The validation service requires UBL files.

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bool success = false;

//  This example assumes the Chilkat HTTP API to have been previously unlocked.
//  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

//  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Also see Chilkat's Online WSDL Code Generator
//  to generate code and SOAP Request and Response XML for each operation in a WSDL.
//  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chilkat.Http http = new Chilkat.Http();

//  We are sending the following POST:

//  POST /wsdvs HTTP/1.1
//  Host: peppol.helger.com
//  Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
//  Content-Length: <length>
//  
//  <?xml version="1.0"?>
//  <S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
//  <S:Body>
//  <validateRequestInput xmlns="http://peppol.helger.com/ws/documentvalidationservice/201701/" VESID="eu.peppol.bis2:t10:3.3.0" displayLocale="en">
//  <XML>...ENTITY_ENCODED_INVOICE_XML_GOES_HERE...</XML>
//  </validateRequestInput>
//  </S:Body>
//  </S:Envelope>

//  Build the SOAP XML shown above.
//  First load the PEPPOL invoice that will be the data contained in the <XML>...</XML> SOAP element.
//  We are using the XML invoice obtained from https://github.com/austriapro/ebinterface-standards/blob/master/schemas/ebInterface5p0/samples/ebinterface_5p0_sample_ecosio.xml
Chilkat.StringBuilder sbPeppolInvoiceXml = new Chilkat.StringBuilder();
success = sbPeppolInvoiceXml.LoadFile("qa_data/xml/peppol_invoice.xml","utf-8");

Chilkat.Xml xml = new Chilkat.Xml();
xml.Tag = "S:Envelope";
xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:S","http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/");
xml.UpdateAttrAt("S:Body|validateRequestInput",true,"xmlns","http://peppol.helger.com/ws/documentvalidationservice/201701/");
xml.UpdateAttrAt("S:Body|validateRequestInput",true,"VESID","at.ebinterface:invoice:5.0");
xml.UpdateAttrAt("S:Body|validateRequestInput",true,"displayLocale","en");
xml.UpdateChildContent("S:Body|validateRequestInput|XML",sbPeppolInvoiceXml.GetAsString());

//  We don't need to specify the Content-Length or Host headers.  Chilkat automatically adds them.

//  Send the request...
Chilkat.HttpResponse resp = new Chilkat.HttpResponse();
success = http.HttpStr("POST","https://peppol.helger.com/wsdvs",xml.GetXml(),"utf-8","text/xml",resp);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("Response Status Code = " + Convert.ToString(resp.StatusCode));

Chilkat.Xml respXml = new Chilkat.Xml();
respXml.LoadXml(resp.BodyStr);

Debug.WriteLine("Response XML:");
Debug.WriteLine(respXml.GetXml());

//  A success repsonse looks like this:

//  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
//  <S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
//      <S:Body>
//          <validateResponseOutput xmlns="http://peppol.helger.com/ws/documentvalidationservice/201701/" success="true" interrupted="false" mostSevereErrorLevel="SUCCESS">
//              <Result success="true" artifactType="xsd" artifactPath="/schemas/ebinterface/ebinterface-5.0.xsd"/>
//          </validateResponseOutput>
//      </S:Body>
//  </S:Envelope>