How do i return a CDATA section in a SOAP response?

Question

hi,
i am relatively new to SOAP/web services. but i know what i want ;-). i naively thought that i could simply send a CDATA wrapped string in a SOAP response by simply doing SOAPElement.addTextNode("<![CDATA[..."). of course, WLS 8.1's javax.xml.soap implementation escapes the <pre>"<" & ">"</pre> as <pre>"<" and ">"</pre> in the response.
IF i could use the saaj 1.2 implementation, i would do something along the lines of the following to return a CDATA section in a SOAP response :
<pre>  
   org.w3c.dom.CDATASection myCDATASection ...;
   SOAPBodyElement myBodyElement ...;
   myBodyElement.appendChild(myCDATASection);
</pre>
or maybe even something like:
<pre>
   String myCDATAString = "<![CDATA[...]]>";
javax.xml.soap.SOAPBody soapBody = ...;
javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder builder = ...;
org.xml.sax.InputSource.InputSource inputSource = ...;
org.w3c.dom.Document document = builder.parse(inputSource);
soapBody.addDocument(document);
</pre>          
but that is a BIG IF! of course, as i have learned after a lengthy trawl through this ng, WLS 8.1 uses its own implementation of the javax.xml.soap.* classes. in particular, weblogic's SOAPBody implementation is devoid of an addDocument(org.w3c.dom.Document) method. and SOAPBodyElement does not have an appendChild(org.w3c.dom.Node)
please, can anybody fill me in on how to go about doing what i am trying to do using WLS 8.1's javax.xml.soap classes?
many thanks

Answer 1

if anybody else out there is also trying to do what i have described (return xml text in a soap response), the solution (told to me by my company's BEA rep) is to just add the raw xml text to the SOAPElement.addTextNode() and weblogic will do the right thing (namely, escape whatever needs to be escaped).
i had been lead to believe that you couldn't send entity refs (<pre>< and ></pre>) in a soap response. i was told i needed to wrap my raw xml in a CDATA section. but actually i don't need a CDATA section after all for the response i need to return (xml text). contrary to what i was lead to believe by another developer, entity refs are not a problem in a soap response (according to BEA, anyway).