Submitting Xml correctly into SOAP envelope

Over time, I became a bit comfortable for web services frameworks to take care of the serialization details. A few days ago, I had to deal with consuming the web service manually and quickly realized that i have not been below trenches in awhile.

The SOAP service has a string parameter which is in fact and xml fragment. Initially, I wrote the soap request in the following format:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

  <soap:Body>

    <PersonalizedHelloWorld xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">

      <nameParameter><name>Roman</name></nameParameter>

    </PersonalizedHelloWorld>

  </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope

Obviously, there is an issue with doing that. Can you spot it?

Well, you must use <![CDATA[]]> escaping syntax in the nameParameter element text. So the it should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

  <soap:Body>

    <PersonalizedHelloWorld xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">

      <nameParameter><![CDATA[<name>Roman</name>]]></nameParameter>

    </PersonalizedHelloWorld>

  </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope