Hi, As we've now excluded the illegal use of '&', it could be related to how the SOAP message is being received, I know of some bugs fixed in 1.6 which could cause similar problems to those you describe. Is it possible for you to attach the "on-the-wire" SOAP/HTTP message causing this problem?
Thanks, Adrian _______________________________________ Adrian Dick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Iwan Tomlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/05/2006 16:41:16: > Hm, sorry I didn't make this clear enough: when looking at the data over > the wire, the ampersand is escaped correctly. > The webservice is deployed with axis-java, so no problems there. My > example should read <name>BOOT & BUTEIJN</name>. > The & was already resolved by xerces when I copy/pasted the value to > this e-mail, sorry for the confusion. > > So Xerces parser has no problems at all, but there seems to be a bug in > the XercesHandler implementation in Axis. > Btw, I have the problem with both Xerces 2.2.0 (as included in axis 1.5 > release), and also when I build Axis 1.5 myself linked with Xerces > 2.7.0. > > I have not been able to use the 1.6 nightly build yet, and I would > rather be able to quickly fix the production problem with a 1.5 patch > first. > > Regards, > Iwan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Dick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: maandag 15 mei 2006 17:20 > To: Apache AXIS C User List > Subject: Re: Crash in XercesHandler.cpp with & in response > > Hi, > > > Under the SOAP (and underlying XML) standards the ampersand character is > reserved, so you are not permitted to use it within data. > You will need to ensure any occurances are correctly encoded --- ie: > '&' > becomes "&". > > It looks quite likely the Xerces Parser is failing when it hits this > invalid use of '&'. > > How is this XML data being produced? Are you using xsd:any -- in which > case you'll need to ensure this encoding takes place -- or are you > seeing an error in the Axis serialization code, where this should be > taking place on your behalf. > > Are you in a position to test if this problem is still present with the > latest Axis 1.6 nightly builds? > > Regards, > Adrian > _______________________________________ > Adrian Dick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > "Iwan Tomlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/05/2006 13:34:04: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm using the Axis C++ 1.5 in a production project, and we are > > experiencing problems when the response from the webservice contains > > ampersands in the xml-data, like <name>BOOT & BUTEIJN</name>. > > > > The generated Axis-client stub crashes (with 'Invalid Address > > specified to RtlFreeHeap' in MCVC6.0 debugger) on the following code > > in XercesHandler::characters > > >>> free(const_cast <char*> (cp_PreviousNameOrValue)); > > free(cp_CurrentNameOrValue); > > > > I found a jira-issue (AXISCPP-825) that seems to address this issue, > > but the reported fix (change free to delete[]) does not work for me, > > the result is the same. > > > > Does anyone have this issue, any hints? > > Strange thing: it appears everything works fine if a point my > > XMLParser in axiscpp.conf to the debug-library 'AxisXMLParser_D.dll' > > instead of the release-build, but I'm afraid that is just a > coincidence. > > > > Any help appreciated. > > > > Kind regards, > > Iwan Tomlow >