CDATA XML String

[Janardhanan, Suresh B]

Andreas,

Thanks for your response. You pointed out that the <![CDATA[ section is 
actually a character section. But since the soap envelope is getting sent with 
invalid XML characters the Target .Net web service is sending a code back, 
which interprets to invalid XML parameters format.

2012-01-18 13:35:20,422 [main] DEBUG httpclient.wire.content  - >> "<?xml 
version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><soapenv:Envelope 
xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope";><soapenv:Body><ns1:RetrieveByParameter
 
xmlns:ns1="http://wsdl.echelon.com/Panoramix/";><sKey>e1839da0c11c4058928b650f97c06853</sKey><sIDTypeID>f76e5d708edd464593bb031f646990b6</sIDTypeID><sID>100063728</sID><sXmlParameters>&lt;![CDATA[&lt;PARAMETERS>&lt;RETURN>&lt;GENERALINFORMATION>&lt;INFORMATIONRETURNTYPEID>3294f665bc644359bfd15824d2efe29c&lt;/INFORMATIONRETURNTYPEID>&lt;/GENERALINFORMATION>&lt;/RETURN>&lt;/PARAMETERS>]]&gt;</sXmlParameters></ns1:RetrieveByParameter></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>"

Do you know if there is a way to send the XML string as is?

<![CDATA[<PARAMETERS><RETURN><GENERALINFORMATION><INFORMATIONRETURNTYPEID>3294f665bc644359bfd15824d2efe29c</INFORMATIONRETURNTYPEID></GENERALINFORMATION></RETURN></PARAMETERS>]]>

I also tried changing the WSDL type and that resulted in an Exception - CDATA 
not allowed in prolog/epilog.

WSDL - changed sXmlParameters type=s:string to xmlStingType as shown below.
      <wsdl:types>
            <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
                  targetNamespace="http://wsdl.echelon.com/Panoramix/";>
                  <xsd:complexType name="xmlStringType">
                        <xsd:sequence>
                              <xsd:any 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>
                        </xsd:sequence>
                  </xsd:complexType>
            </xsd:schema>
      </wsdl:types>
<wsdl:part name="sXmlParameters" type="tns:xmlStringType" />

Code Snippet:
XmlStringType xmlStrType = new XmlStringType();
      OMElement element = AXIOMUtil.stringToOM(xmlParameters);
      xmlStrType.setExtraElement(element);

Stack Trace:
Caused by:
org.apache.axiom.om.OMException: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: 
Unexpected character 'C' (code 67) (CDATA not allowed in prolog/epilog)
at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,3]
  Stack Trace:
        
org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next(StAXOMBuilder.java:297)
        
org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMDocumentImpl.getOMDocumentElement(OMDocumentImpl.java:111)
        
org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.getDocumentElement(StAXOMBuilder.java:571)
        
org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.getDocumentElement(StAXOMBuilder.java:567)
        org.apache.axiom.om.util.AXIOMUtil.stringToOM(AXIOMUtil.java:54)
        org.apache.axiom.om.util.AXIOMUtil.stringToOM(AXIOMUtil.java:39)

Thanks much for your help,
Suresh