Hi Tom, My understanding (which may be wrong) is that the automagic escaping of < into < means that you don't have to worry about this at all. Axis has done all the hard work.
It's a bit like the way you can just stop worrying about quote marks in JDBC when you switch from Statements to PreparedStatements. Hope this helps Keith -----Original Message----- From: tom ONeill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 January 2004 14:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XML within string parameter to RPC Service Hi all, I am going to be using Axis to invoke an RPC style web service which takes a single string parameter. This string parameter is going to contain an XML message. What I am wondering is if I need to wrap this String in a CDATA section before I invoke the web service? >From reading the XML specification it says that character data consists of any text that does not contain markup. However my string value will contain markup. I have tested invoking the web service without wrapping my String in a CDATA section and have found that Axis has changed all the markup characters into their respective entity references (i.e. < has become < ). What Im wondering is why Axis is doing this? Im not sure how it creates its SOAP messages but from a brief glance of the code I guess it uses DOM (rather than plain String manipulation ). From looking at the DOM API it does not mention anything about the createTextNode method parsing the text content and expanding markup to use entity references? Any recommendations or pointers as to what should influence whether the text should be wrapped in a CDATA section would help.... Cheers, Tom _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
