Question

I have the following XML:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:axis="http://ws.apache.org/axis2">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <axis:ErrorQueueInput>
         <errorStr>JIRA Topic</errorStr>
         <InputMessage> <a>jira message</a><b>jira2 msg</b> </InputMessage>
      </axis:ErrorQueueInput>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

where I need to get the output as:

<a>jira message</a><b>jira2 msg</b>

If I keep my XPath like;

//soapenv1:Envelope/soapenv1:Body/axis:ErrorQueueInput/InputMessage

output is something like:

jira message jira2 msg

If I try like this:

 //soapenv1:Envelope/soapenv1:Body/axis:ErrorQueueInput/InputMessage//child::*

output is (which is wrong):

 jira message

How can I get whole XML (i.e.: <a>jira message</a><b>jira2 msg</b>) as my output?

Answer 1

Whatever you are using to evaluate the xpath is coercing the node value to a string. Since you don’t say what you are currently doing, we can’t tell you what is wrong.

On the off chance you are using XSL, possibly you are using value-of when you should be using copy-of.