I am tring to return a snippet of xml as a string from a cxf/rest based web service method. How do I prevent cxf from marking it up. Here is what is supposed to be returned <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <add><doc> <field name="id">1</field> <field name="filename">filename.psd</field> <field name="releaseDate">2007-08-10T10:00:20:070Z</field> <field name="dateAdded">2007-08-10T10:00:20:070Z</field> <field name="dateUpdated">2007-08-10T10:00:20:070Z</field> </doc></add> Here is the response from cxf
<ns2:getDocumentsResponse xmlns:ns2="http://myservice.webservices"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
 <add><doc>
 <field name="id">1</field>
 <field name="filename">beaver.psd</field>
 <field name="releaseDate">2007-08-10T10:00:20:070Z</field>
 <field name="dateAdded">2007-08-10T10:00:20:070Z</field>
 <field name="dateUpdated">2007-08-10T10:00:20:070Z</field>
 </doc></add>
 </ns2:getDocumentsResponse> -- Dave Kallstrom
