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Asked: 2026-05-13T20:04:56+00:00

My web service is receiving xml from a third party that looks like this:

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My web service is receiving xml from a third party that looks like this:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
    <SOAP-ENV:Body>
&lt;Foo&gt;bar&lt;/Foo&gt;
    </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

My jaxws web service rejects this with a parsing error. Also if I try to validate this xml using soapui it says Body with element-only content type cannot have text element.

My question is, is that xml valid? Or is the client supposed to send me something without escaping the < and >.

Any references to xml standards or rules are appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Well, that’s certainly valid XML. However your question seems to be rather whether it conforms to the SOAP protocol, which is a more restrictive question.

    In the example, your SOAP body is just a text element. I’m no SOAP expert but in all of the SOAP examples I see, there are element nodes in the body and not just text. Also the SOAP Recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508) does say

    “A body entry is identified by its
    fully qualified element name”

    which does suggest a requirement for elements rather than text.

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