Soap Envelope HTML Payload issue com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Unexpected '<'

Question

I'm working on the legacy soap API to modify. I have to add an email body in the payload when I'm sending simple text it works fine when I send "<p>test</p>" or HTML it gives me an error.

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <soapenv:Body>
      <soapenv:Fault>
         <faultcode>soapenv:Server</faultcode>
         <faultstring>com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Unexpected '&lt;'  in attribute value
 at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [32,57]</faultstring>
         <detail/>
      </soapenv:Fault>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

my soap API written in ColdFusion 10

XSD

<xs:element name="parameter" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:complexType mixed = "true">
    <xs:attribute name="name" use="required">
        <xs:simpleType>
            <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
                <xs:minLength value="1"/>
            </xs:restriction>
        </xs:simpleType>
    </xs:attribute>
    <xs:attribute name="value" use="required"  type="xs:string" />
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

Answer 1

You want to use encodeForXML (https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/cfml-reference/coldfusion-functions/functions-e-g/encodeforxml.html) to escape the content first. If that's not available in CF10, the older XmlFormat (https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/cfml-reference/coldfusion-functions/functions-t-z/xmlformat.html).