[MOBY-dev] XML elements into serviceNote get scaped

[Iván Párraga García]

Hi Martin,

All my services are MoSeS generated. I don't deal directly with any XML
at all... Tomorrow I can perform more tests on different services, but
my intuition is that there is a problem in MoSeS... The strange thing is
that I didn't realize about it before...Have you performed any test with
any other service provider?

Cheers,

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Martin Senger escribió:
>> I've suffered these problems in the past with Java XML...
>>     
>
>
> Yes, me too. And so far I always found that the problem was  on the service
> side.  As it is here (see below).  Was this service generated by Moses?
> Because if yes then it is also my problem :-)
>
> The XML returned by the service in question is wrongly escaped. This is what
> is on -the-wire:
>
> ...
> <result xsi:type="xsd:string">&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;
> encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;
> &lt;moby:MOBY xmlns:moby=&quot;http://www.biomoby.org/moby&quot;&gt;
>   &lt;moby:mobyContent&gt;
>     &lt;moby:serviceNotes&gt;&amp;lt;moby:mobyException
> severity=&quot;2&quot; &amp;gt;
> ...
>
> The beginning is as it should be: &lt;moby:MOBY...
>
> But the service notes are double-escaped - because the ampersand which is
> the part of the construct "&lt;" is again escaped so we get wrongly "
> &gt;&amp;lt;moby:mobyException". And this is what the service sent over the
> network (I caught it using a TCP monitor, not the Dashboard or other tool
> that may already fiddle with the raw data).
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
>