title: Sending invalid XML Characters in Soap Request
body: <p>I am trying to send special (<code>&amp;</code>, <code>'</code> (single quote)) characters in the Soap Request. I am using axis 1.4. The webservice client is in weblogic server and the webservice server is an ibm mainframe (COBOL program). </p>
  
  <p>The request data from the client contains special character (<code>&amp;</code> symbol) which is converted to <code>&amp;amp;</code></p>
  
  <p>I tried to enclose it with CDATA as </p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;![CDATA[Some Name &amp; Some Data ]]&gt;</code> 
  which got converted to </p>
  
  <pre><code>&amp;lt;![CDATA[Some Name &amp;amp; Some Data]]&amp;gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The webservice client is generated from wsdl, so I couldn't use CDATA api to construct the request. I am able to set it as string value, and it is getting converted.</p>
  
  <p>Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you need any more information on this.</p>