unable to get the correct xpath in soapUI - xpath

Question

I am unable to fetch the correct xpath for the below schema. Any help would be great
> <soapenv:Envelope
> xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
> <soapenv:Header>
> <ns1:ABC soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"
> soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns:ns1="http://ABCT.XYZ.com">
> <ns2:type xmlns:ns2="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">response</ns2:type>
> <ns3:service xmlns:ns3="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">
> <ns3:name>ABCT2 Client</ns3:name>
> <ns3:version>1.0.0</ns3:version>
> </ns3:service>
> <ns4:originator xmlns:ns4="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">ABCT20</ns4:originator>
> <ns5:businessProcessName xmlns:ns5="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">whaaiaia</ns5:businessProcessName>
> <ns6:requestDateTime xmlns:ns6="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">2022-06-23T14:02:59.995Z</ns6:requestDateTime>
> <ns7:sourceSystemTransactionId xmlns:ns7="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">77888877</ns7:sourceSystemTransactionId>
> <ns8:user xmlns:ns8="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">
> <ns8:id>bbb</ns8:id>
> <ns8:group>ccc</ns8:group>
> </ns8:user>
> <ns9:transactionReference xmlns:ns9="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">b65787</ns9:transactionReference>
> <ns10:result xmlns:ns10="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">
> <ns10:status>success</ns10:status>
> <ns10:provider>PQR</ns10:provider>
> </ns10:result>
> </ns1:ABC> </soapenv:Header>
I need to get the success response tag.

Answer 1

Your current edit is better, but it's still not well-formed. I've taken your current data and removed all the > from the start of each line and added the missing </soapenv:Envelope> closing tag to produce this well-formed XML document:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Header>
<ns1:ABC soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next" soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns:ns1="http://ABCT.XYZ.com">
<ns2:type xmlns:ns2="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">response</ns2:type>
<ns3:service xmlns:ns3="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">
<ns3:name>ABCT2 Client</ns3:name>
<ns3:version>1.0.0</ns3:version>
</ns3:service>
<ns4:originator xmlns:ns4="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">ABCT20</ns4:originator>
<ns5:businessProcessName xmlns:ns5="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">whaaiaia</ns5:businessProcessName>
<ns6:requestDateTime xmlns:ns6="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">2022-06-23T14:02:59.995Z</ns6:requestDateTime>
<ns7:sourceSystemTransactionId xmlns:ns7="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">77888877</ns7:sourceSystemTransactionId>
<ns8:user xmlns:ns8="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">
<ns8:id>bbb</ns8:id>
<ns8:group>ccc</ns8:group>
</ns8:user>
<ns9:transactionReference xmlns:ns9="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">b65787</ns9:transactionReference>
<ns10:result xmlns:ns10="http://ABC.XYZ.com/header">
<ns10:status>success</ns10:status>
<ns10:provider>PQR</ns10:provider>
</ns10:result>
</ns1:ABC>
</soapenv:Header>
</soapenv:Envelope>
There are a number of ways you could query for the "success" response flag contained in the status element: e.g. here's one:
//*[local-name()='status' and namespace-uri()='http://ABC.XYZ.com/header']
That expression evaluates to the status element containing the text "success". If you just want to check if the status is successful, you could use this XPath expression instead:
//*[local-name()='status' and namespace-uri()='http://ABC.XYZ.com/header']='success'
That will return the boolean value true.
Note you could query for the status element with an XPath like this:
//ns1:status
... or
//ns1:status='success'
... but first you will need to bind the ns1 prefix to the namespace URI http://ABC.XYZ.com/header, and how you would do that depends on what software you are using to evaluate the XPath. Using the local-name() and namespace-uri() functions is a way to query for the element with a particular namespaced name, but without having to do that binding.