In my case xmlInputFactory.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.IS_COALESCING, false); worked. XML aware editors show CDATA wrapped string correctly even though raw data may appear so.
Regards, Ajit ________________________________ From: Suresh Janardhanan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 20 January 2012 06:02 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Axis client CDATA XML in a string request Andreas, I'll try to start from the beginning and explain what I am trying to achieve as you suggested. I generated a web service client for a .NET Target web service using Apache Axis 2.1.6.1. Here is a snippet of the .Net WSDL. <wsdl:message name="RetrieveByParameterSoapIn"> <wsdl:part name="sKey" type="s:string" /> <wsdl:part name="sIDTypeID" type="s:string" /> <wsdl:part name="sID" type="s:string" /> <wsdl:part name="sXmlParameters" type="s:string" /> </wsdl:message> The Target expects an XML string to be set in "sXmlParameters", something like this - <![CDATA[<PARAMETERS><RETURN><GENERALINFORMATION><INFORMATIONRETURNTYPEID>3294f665bc644359bfd15824d2efe29c</INFORMATIONRETURNTYPEID></GENERALINFORMATION></RETURN></PARAMETERS>]] Since it is a "string type", Axis client is converting the characters - < and > So, the request looks like this - [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><![CDATA[<PARAMETERS><RETURN><GENERALINFORMATION><INFORMATIONRETURNTYPEID>3294f665bc644359bfd15824d2efe29c</INFORMATIONRETURNTYPEID></GENERALINFORMATION></RETURN></PARAMETERS>]]></sXmlParameters></ns1:RetrieveByParameter></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>" My objective is to send the XML string inside "sXmlParameters" as is without the <, > getting converted. So I tried these steps. 1. I thought by adding XMLInputFactory.properties - javax.xml.stream.isCoalescing=false, it would the issue. But you pointed out that since it is character data this won't work. 2. I tried changing the "sXmlParameters" type in the wsdl, but that resulted in com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException. 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) Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Suresh
