"Peter Olcott" <NoSpam@S...> wrote in message 
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> "Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@h...> wrote in message 
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>> "Peter Olcott" <NoSpam@S...> wrote in message 
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>>> Is there any way to return XML from a SOAP call without the special 
>>> characters such as "<" being encoded as &lt; ???
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>> To be valid XML they have to encoded or within a CDATA section, but that 
>> only applies to text within elements. So if you were crafting your own 
>> service you could force a CDATA section for the elements in question but 
>> attribute values would still have to be encoded. I don't know of any of 
>> the popular SOAP frameworks that allow you to specify CDAT sections in 
>> their configuration.
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> The system that we are using is gsoap.
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Not one I've come across. But the fact is that either you need non 
well-formed 'XML', in which case no self-respecting system will do that, or 
you can use CDATA, which is only a convenience anyway. No XML parser will 
care whether you have: <data> 1 & l t ; 2</data> (spaces for readability) or 
<data><![CDATA[ 1 < 2 ]]></data>
Strive to fix whatever system needs non well-formed XML to operate or we'll 
end up with the same problems that beset us with browsers that repair bad 
HTML.

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name