PHP SoapClient creating XML references for identical elements, makes it unacceptable for service

Question

I am working on a SOAP client in PHP, and the calls are going through to the service fine, with the exception of calls where there are elements that are identical to each other. It seems that when this happens, rather than creating two separate but identical elements, like this:

<ns1:someelement>
  <ns1:name>name1</ns1:name>
  <ns1:value>value1</ns1:value>
</ns1:someelement>
<ns1:someelement>
  <ns1:name>name1</ns1:name>
  <ns1:value>value1</ns1:value>
</ns1:someelement>

it is insisting on making only one copy of the element and assigning it an ID, and using href for any subsequent instances of that element (shown below), which is not supported by the webservice I am using (I don't know why this is, but it doesn't really matter because I cannot change it)

<ns1:someelement id="#ref1">
  <ns1:name>name1</ns1:name>
  <ns1:value>value1</ns1:value>
</ns1:someelement>
<ns1:someelement href="#ref1" />

So my question is how might I force the XML to come out with the duplicate elements included in full, rather than them using hrefs/ids. I checked the docs for PHP SoapClient for an option or something of the sort, but couldn't find anything. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

SoapClient makes a reference only when you use the same object on multiple XML nodes. Make for each place a new object if you do not want the references.