-----Original Message----- From: kimhorn [mailto:kim....@icsglobal.net] Sent: Wednesday, 15 April 2009 2:29 PM To: de...@synapse.apache.org Subject: Does CData work ?

We have a target service that requires a CDATA wrapped tag as the text can have leading and/or trailing spaces. I have attemped to use a Java Mediator to wrap the data, in a property, with CData. The property is then imbedded into XML payload using Javascript, see below. Extract of Java:

claimData = "<![CDATA[\"" + claimData + "\"]]>"; synCtx.setProperty("claimData", claimData);

Note the " are required to delimit the data for the receiver. However using TCPMON the data actually sent is:

<ws1:responseFormat>997</ws1:responseFormat> <ws1:claimData>&lt;![CDATA["000000221933601MOHMCRYBA000000022193 etc etc ......

The recipient service does not like this. Synapse escapes the "<" . I was hoping to get:

<ws1:responseFormat>997</ws1:responseFormat> <ws1:claimData><![CDATA["000000221933601MOHMCRYBA000000022193 etc etc ......

It appears betwen the mediator and send, the XML gets weird. After the mediator I am using JavaScript to add the property into the XML payload, see {claimData}:

<script language="js"><![CDATA[var guid = mc.getProperty("GUID").toString(); var claimData = mc.getProperty("claimData").toString(); var fileName = mc.getProperty("fileName").toString(); mc.setPayloadXML(<ws1:submitHealthCareClaimBatch xmlns:ws1="http://ws1.thelma.icsglobal.net"> <ws1:guid>{guid}</ws1:guid>

<ws1:clientBatchId>{guid}</ws1:clientBatchId> <ws1:claimFormat>NDC</ws1:claimFormat>

<ws1:responseFormat>997</ws1:responseFormat>

<ws1:claimData>{claimData}</ws1:claimData> </ws1:submitHealthCareClaimBatch>); ]]></script>

Is the Javascript the problem ? Note it is impossible to insert the CDATA in the Javascript as then the Javscript become invalid due to the nested CDATA. Hence why I used Java.

If I do all the above in Java, create the payload in Java and wrap the tag in "<![CDATA[\"" + claimData + "\"]]>" in Java, instead of Javascript, is this likely to work, or is it the synapse send process escaping the CDATA XML ?

Thanks