SOAPElement addTextNode() with XML content

[victor_sk]

Hi everybody,

I have a big problem. I've got a requirement here that the XML request for <xmlRequest> element must be actual XML content. The SOAP envelope has this requirement:

 <requestXML>string</requestXML>

When I construct SOAPElement as follows:

QName name = new QName("requestXML");
        SOAPElement requestXML = bodyElement.addChildElement(name);
        requestXML.addTextNode("<XML content>");

and call webservice, I get the following back:

<requestXML>&lt;XML content&gt;</requestXML>
Code="1001"&gt;XML request cannot be empty.&lt;/Error&gt;&lt;

So it seems that when I pass XML Content into addTextNode() the '<' and '>' tags change into other characters and XML content is not recognized.

Does anybody know how to pass XML Content into addTextNode() as string and preserve XML Content?

Thank you,
Victor.

[Tolls]

Find out from the web service exactly what it expects first off.
Then find out what that error means, because I wouldn't expect that sort of error if it was unable to parse the XML.

[victor_sk]

Thanks for replying but I found a different approach using NetBeans webservices feature. Hopefully this will help others. NetBeans automatically generated WS classes and I could successfully pass XML request as String parameter into webservice operation that NetBeans generated

[Tolls]

Oh right.
You mean you were trying to do this manually?

...oh yes, of course you were. Sorry, wasn't reading closely enough!

Yep, I would recommend a generator (and there's one with pretty much any framework, Axis, JAX-WS, etc).