DOM document problem

Hello,
We created webservice based on example EchoDom. When we post
XML document (where elements have attributes) to webservice, then the following
excetption occurs:
weblogic.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ':' expected a valid beginning name character
- with nested exception:
[Error at line:2 col:8 ':' expected a valid beginning name character]
javax.xml.soap.SOAPException: failed to receive message:
at weblogic.webservice.core.DefaultWebService.invoke(DefaultWebService.java:218)
at weblogic.webservice.server.servlet.ServletBase.serverSideInvoke(ServletBase.java:362)
at weblogic.webservice.server.servlet.WebServiceServlet.serverSideInvoke(WebServiceServlet.java:269)
at weblogic.webservice.server.servlet.ServletBase.doPost(ServletBase.java:346)
at weblogic.webservice.server.servlet.WebServiceServlet.doPost(WebServiceServlet.java:237)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1058)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:401)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:306)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:5412)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityServiceManager.runAs(SecurityServiceManager.java:744)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3086)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2544)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:153)
XML is quite simple for illustrative purposes:
<test>
<data Id="D1"/>
</test>
If we remove attributes
<test>
<data>some data</data>
</test>
then everything works fine.
Does anybody know the solution to that problem?
Ago

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:34:23 -0800, Ago Meister wrote:
>
Hello,
We created webservice based on example EchoDom. When we post
XML document (where elements have attributes) to webservice, then the following
excetption occurs:Can you please run with the system property weblogic.webservice.verbose
set to true and post the request and response xml?

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