RE: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference

[Sumit Shah]

Basically this is the stack trace. It seems like the error is thrown by the 
Axis2 SOAPMessageFormatter. I do not know if this is a bug in Axis2 or Xerces? 
I would appreciate if someone could please confirm it and let me know if you 
have any suggestions for a fix.

FYI..This is in Axis2 1.4

Thanks
Sumit

<soapenv:Fault><faultcode>soapenv:Server</faultcode><faultstring>ParseError at 
[row,col]:[1,3137]

Message: The entity name must immediately follow the '&amp;' in the entity 
reference.</faultstring><detail><Exception>org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: 
ParseError at [row,col]:[1,3137]

Message: The entity name must immediately follow the '&amp;' in the entity 
reference.

                at org.apache.axis2.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:430)

                at 
org.apache.axis2.transport.http.SOAPMessageFormatter.writeTo(SOAPMessageFormatter.java:83)

                at 
org.apache.axis2.transport.http.CommonsHTTPTransportSender.sendUsingOutputStream(CommonsHTTPTransportSender.java:330)

                at 
org.apache.axis2.transport.http.CommonsHTTPTransportSender.invoke(CommonsHTTPTransportSender.java:213)

                at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.send(AxisEngine.java:448)

                at 
org.apache.axis2.receivers.AbstractInOutMessageReceiver.invokeBusinessLogic(AbstractInOutMessageReceiver.java:43)

                at 
org.apache.axis2.receivers.AbstractMessageReceiver.receive(AbstractMessageReceiver.java:100)

                at 
org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.receive(AxisEngine.java:176)

                at 
org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPTransportUtils.processHTTPPostRequest(HTTPTransportUtils.java:275)

                at 
org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:131)

                at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727)

                at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)


-----Original Message-----
From: Sumit Shah [mailto:sumit.s...@cgifederal.com]
Sent: Fri 7/24/2009 7:41 PM
To: axis-dev@ws.apache.org; axis-u...@ws.apache.org
Subject: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference
 
All,

 

My SOAP envelope generated using AXIS2 contains escaped entities but the client 
tools like (SOAP UI, Eclipse, etc.) still fail with the entity error message:

 

Message: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference

 

Here is a SOAP response snippet where I have the escaped entities:

 

<ns2:typeOfAgencyTransfer xsi:nil="true"/>

                                                                        
<ns2:uniqueIdentity>&amp;3426&amp;3427&amp;1609&amp;SV&amp;MKH177902&amp;&amp;0&amp;1</ns2:uniqueIdentity>

                                                                        
<ns2:updateAtHigherLevel>false</ns2:updateAtHigherLevel>

                                                                        
<ns2:updateExchangeFlag>true</ns2:updateExchangeFlag>

 

 

I have no clue why this should fail. Does it need to be wrapped in CDATA?

 

Thanks

Sumit