I have had a problem with web services stripping &#A; from inbound attributes on message based web services. This happened on Axis so I though I would give yours a try and it does it too. Is this the standard or should it keep them? I debugged it and found and fixed where it is happening. Could you look at the solution attached and see if it is correct?
Problem happens because document is turned to a string using default DOMWriter without canonical set to true. The following snippet would fix it.
public class DOMEnvelopeBuilder implements SAAJEnvelopeBuilder {
......
public SOAPEnvelope build(InputStream ins) throws IOException, SOAPException {
.....
else if (style == Style.DOCUMENT)
{
Element srcElement = (Element)domBodyElement;
SOAPBodyElementDoc destElement = new SOAPBodyElementDoc(beName);
destElement = (SOAPBodyElementDoc)soapBody.addChildElement(destElement);
// BEGIN POTENTIAL BUG FIX STEVEN E CROY the webservice cuts out
from attributes Attr="&#A;" becomes Attr=" "
StringWriter strw = new StringWriter();
new DOMWriter(strw).setPrettyprint(false).setCanonical(true).print(srcElement);
String xmlFragment = strw.toString();
// String xmlFragment = DOMWriter.printNode(srcElement, false);
// END POTENTIAL BUG FIX STEVEN E CROY
destElement.setXMLFragment(xmlFragment);
}
...
