RE: returning XML as xsd:string

[John Bodfish]

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Bruce:   Embedding an XML document in a SOAP message (which is an XML document itself) is nearly impossible to do in with any guarantee that it will work for any arbitrary document – unless you transform the XML document into a character encoding that won’t contain any characters that are treated specially by the XML parser at the receiving end.   See http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2002/08/28/endpoints.html for more details. The author’s conclusion: “Unfortunately, while it can be prohibitively expensive (in terms of message size and memory use), Base64 strings have been the only approach that works and is portable.” Note that if you choose this approach your application (and those you exchange message with) will have to convert the embedded XML document to and from Base64.   John   From: Bruce McHaffie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:36 PM To: 'axis-c-user@ws.apache.org' Subject: returning XML as xsd:string   Hi, I have a Java web service that returns xsd:string data to the Axis C++ client. I have noticed that if the returned string contains angle brackets (<>) then the client fails (with a heap corruption message -- I'm running in debug). The SOAP message is returned correctly, and the start element is found. The error seems to happen when the client tries to parse the message for the content of the string.   Client fails at:  getElementAsString( AxisChar* pName, AxisChar* pNamespace) File is: SoapDeSerializer.cpp Line number is: 3049 in Axis C++ 1.4, Call is: m_pNode = m_pParser->next (true);   Sample SOAP message that fails:   <soapenv:Envelope>  <soapenv:Body>   <getEnvelopeRecipientResponse soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">     <getEnvelopeRecipientReturn xsi:type="xsd:string"><Any string at all></getEnvelopeRecipientReturn>   </getEnvelopeRecipientResponse>  </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>   Sample SOAP message that works:   <soapenv:Envelope>  <soapenv:Body>   <getEnvelopeRecipientResponse soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">     <getEnvelopeRecipientReturn xsi:type="xsd:string">Any string at all</getEnvelopeRecipientReturn>   </getEnvelopeRecipientResponse>  </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>   I tried escaping the angle brackets with &lt; and &gt; but that didn't solve the problem. Any ideas?   Thanks,   Bruce.