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<berryv@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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Hi all,

We have a soap webservice built with Delphi 6.
The service has a funcion with three string-paramaters, one of which
is used to pass xml-data.

The service gets called by another party who uses Uniface to call our
webservice.
They get the following error when special character are used (like
"�"):
"<SOAP-ENV:faultstring>An invalid character was found in text
content."

When I call the service with a testtool built with D6, I can use such
characters and no problem occurs.

So, the call doesn't get past the soap-middelware.

Here's an axample of a call, wich, when called from my machine gives
no error:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/
envelope/' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'
xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:SOAP-
ENC='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'>
<SOAP-ENV:Body SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/
encoding/'>
<NS1:echoAdvies xmlns:NS1='urn:adviesIntf-Iadvies'>
<username xsi:type='xsd:string'>test</username>
<password xsi:type='xsd:string'>test</password>
<query xsi:type='xsd:string'>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;
encoding=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot;?&gt;&lt;vraag xmlns:xsi=&quot;http://
www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot;
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=&quot;c:\\source\\test\\xml\
\query.xsd&quot;&gt; &lt;Special character: �&gt;BRN&lt;/bron&gt;&lt;/
vraag&gt;</query>
</NS1:echoAdvies>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Any ideas?

Errors like that normally mean that the encoding declared in the XML, 
'ISO-8859-1', in this case is not the actual encoding used. How do you 
specify the encoding in your service. I would suggest changing the 
decalration to UTF-16 or UTF-8 anyway, why restrict yourselves?

-- 

Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)

http://joe.fawcett.name