Your can return an Element <Reply> that way it will be XML and any
parser will be able to parse it.
Davenport Todd S GS-09 96 CG/SCTOA wrote:
> Hello all. I've got a quick question.
>
> I'm using Tomcat 4.0.1 with SOAP 2.2 servlet. My deployed service is
> a Java class method, and returns an XML fragment as a String.
>
> public String foo() {
> return "<reply>foo</reply>";
> }
>
> So I would expect the SOAP reply to look something like this:
>
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
> xmlns:SOAP-ENV="Some-URI"
> SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="Some-URI"/>
> <SOAP-ENV:Body>
> <m:foo xmlns:m="Some-URI">
> <reply>foo</reply>
> </m:foo>
> </SOAP-ENV:Body>
> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
>
> However, the reply I'm getting is this
>
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
> xmlns:SOAP-ENV="Some-URI"
> SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="Some-URI"/>
> <SOAP-ENV:Body>
> <m:foo xmlns:m="Some-URI">
> <reply>foo</reply>
> </m:foo>
> </SOAP-ENV:Body>
> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
>
> So now the problem is my client cannot parse the XML reply. I'm using
> a Perl LWP client, but I've snooped the connection and the server is
> the one escaping the special characters inside the Body tag. I do not
> want to make the client translate the escaped characters back, because
> I may want to use Java clients, VB clients, etc., so I'd rather solve
> this problem once, instead of for every type of client.
>
> How can I prevent the special characters inside the Body tag to not be
> escaped?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> ~tsd
>
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> 96 CG/SCTOA
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