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Thank you very much for answering. I have given an update in another post 
before I saw that you had replied. I'll give some more detail here now.

I am creating a SOAP server application, with a SOAP data module.

When trying to connect a client to the data module, no DataSetProviders were 
showing up, so I had a look at the server interface through a web browser. 
(by going to http://localhost/cgi-bin/DataServer.exe)

In the browser, I could see the Data Module interface. However, when I 
clicked on the WSDL link, I received the 'Error: This name may not contain 
the ':' character' message.

So then I applied the unofficial fix and recompiled. This time, I received a 
different error when trying to view the WSDL. The error was: 'Error: 
Unexpected NameSpace parameter'

In the debugger, I found that a call to SetAttributeNS was causing the 
exception. The exception was due to the call being made with an empty 
NodeName parameter.

I traced that problem back to the new version of GetPrefixedName from the 
unofficial fixes.

Here is the function from the unofficial fixes:


function TXMLNode.GetPrefixedName(const Name, NamespaceURI: DOMString): 
DOMString;
var
  NSDecl: IXMLNode;
begin
  { The method adds a prefix to a localname based on the specified URI.
    If there is no corresponding namespace already declared or if
    the name is already prefixed, then nothing is done. }
  if (doAutoPrefix in OwnerDocument.Options) and not IsPrefixed(Name) then
  begin
    NSDecl := FindNamespaceDecl(NamespaceURI);
    if Assigned(NSDecl) and (NSDecl.LocalName <> '') then
      if Assigned(NSDecl) and (NSDecl.NodeName <> SXMLNS) then
        Result := MakeNodeName(NSDecl.LocalName, Name)
      else
        Result := Name;
  end else
    Result := Name;
end;


Notice that the

"if Assigned(NSDecl) and (NSDecl.LocalName <> '') then"

statement does not have a matching else condition.
When this condition is false, the fuction returns with an empty result and 
causes the 'Error: Unexpected NameSpace parameter' exception.

So then I added an

else
    Result := Name;

to match with the dangling if statment.

That corrected the 'Error: Unexpected NameSpace parameter'.

However, I was now getting the 'Error: This name may not contain the ':' 
character' exception again.


So I tracked that to when the schema is being created for the
      TWideStringDynArray  SAS_GetProviderNames()

method of the SoapDataModule interface. The problem is that when creating 
the Array attributes, it does not find the namespace registered for the URI, 
and thus tries to create an attribute named ':n1', missing the namespace 
before the colon.

It appears that the WSDL is created correctly for interfaces that do not 
have arrays in them. For example, the IAppServer schema is fine; it has no 
array parameters.

However, the WSDL for IAppServerSOAP, ISoapDataModule, and IWSDLPublish all 
fail. All three of these have array paramerters in their methods, and all 
three generate the 'Error: This name may not contain the ':' character' 
exception when trying to construct the Array schema attributes.


So this is about as far as I can figure out. I've tried to figure out how to 
get the namespace for the URI registered, so the prefix would be applied, 
but haven't been able to. I'm pretty stuck at this point.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ben