Mixed encoding in soap message reply

Question

I am trying to send a soap message to a service that uses UTF-16 encoding. I sent a UTF-8 encoded request. The reply was UTF-8 but the body was UTF-16.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<SOAPSDK1:GetCountryStateAreaResponse xmlns:SOAPSDK1="http://tempuri.org/message/">
<Result xmlns:SOAPSDK2="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAPSDK3="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" SOAPSDK2:type="SOAPSDK3:string"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?><atdw_data_results><country id="500001" code="AU" name="Australia" isd_code="61" states_allowed_flag="1" product_id="503928"><state id="500006" code="TAS" name="Tasmania"><area id="500361" code="NNE">North - North East</area><area id="500362" code="NW">North West</area><area id="500363" code="S">South</area></state></country></atdw_data_results></Result>
</SOAPSDK1:GetCountryStateAreaResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
I used an xslt transform to indent the xml but it could only understand the UTF-8 soap envelope.
Should I encode the request in UTF-16 and how can this be done in SAAJ ?
Should I try Apache Soap instead ? It seems very difficult to extract the body of the message using SAAJ.
Thanks
Bill

Answer 1

I have got it to work with Apache Soap. Much simpler to extract the reply body from the soap message too.
Bill