Can an element name begin with numbers?

[Colin Ma]

Hi there,

I am a newbie to AXIS and SOAP.  I just ran into a rather simple problem and
I hope some of you there have the answers. I appreciate it if you can shed
light on the problem.

Here is the problem: I have a SOAP message which uses element names begining
with numbers. I believe it causes the parsing to fail. Below are the SOAP
message and the error message.

Can someone tell me know to work around it, supposed that the element name
has to begin with numbers? (By the way XML-RPC accepts it without problems).

Many thanks.

Colin Ma
MedImpact


Following is the message:
HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: Resin/2.1.9 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:19:19 GMT  <soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";
xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
xmlns:tns="salesforce" xmlns:types="salesforce/encodedTypes"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; >
   <soap:Header/>
   <soap:Body>
      <return>
         <value xsi:type="tns:array">
            <valueMap xsi:type="tns:map">
               <type xsi:type="xsd:string">Test</type>
               <contactID xsi:type="xsd:string">00330000000v58X</contactID>
               <caseNumber xsi:type="xsd:string">00004277</caseNumber>
               <00N30000000bnSZ
xsi:type="xsd:string">Marketing</00N30000000bnSZ>
               <ownerID xsi:type="xsd:string">00530000000bpXP</ownerID>
               <id xsi:type="xsd:string">5003000000093Fr</id>
            </valueMap>
         </value>
      </return>
   </soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

Here is the error message I got with AXIS 1.1. 
Exception in thread "main" AxisFault
 faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException
 faultSubcode:
 faultString: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content of elements must
consist of well-formed character data or marku
p.
 faultActor:
 faultNode:
 faultDetail:
        {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content of elements must consist of
well-formed character data or markup.
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at
org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.parse(DeserializationCon
textImpl.java:242)
        at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:538)
        at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:376)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2583)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2553)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2248)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2171)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1691)
        at
salesforce.SalesforceConnectorBindingStub.query(SalesforceConnectorBindingSt
ub.java:439)
        at salesforce.TestCase.myTest(TestCase.java:99)
        at salesforce.TestCase.main(TestCase.java:118)