SOAP Reponse contains &gt and &lt instead of and

Question

I am new to Web Services. I wrote a simple SOAP client in Java. It seems to work and I get the SOAP response back; however the XML response has < and > instead of < and >. Am I making a mistake in my source code? I have placed my source code below and the result that I get when I run the code. How do I get a proper response with < and > instead of &lt and &gt?
Webservice Endpoint: http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx
WSDL Location: http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx?wsdl
From the <GetQuoteResult>, the reponse I get has &lt and &gt for < and >. However, when I past it here, the &lt and &gt are being converted to < and >.
SOAP Response that I get:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.
xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Body><GetQuoteResponse xmln
s="http://www.webserviceX.NET/"><GetQuoteResult><StockQuotes><Stock>
<Symbol>IBN</Symbol><Last>38.58</Last><Date>7/30/2
010</Date><Time>10:24am</Time><Change>-0.35</Change&g
t;<Open>38.42</Open><High>38.86</High><Low>38.29&l
t;/Low><Volume>314170</Volume><MktCap>21.505B</MktCap&gt
;<PreviousClose>38.93</PreviousClose><PercentageChange>-0.90%&
lt;/PercentageChange><AnnRange>28.53 - 45.95</AnnRange><Earns&
gt;1.782</Earns><P-E>21.85</P-E><Name>ICICI Bank Limite&
lt;/Name></Stock></StockQuotes></GetQuoteResult></GetQuoteRespons
e></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>
SOAP response that I am expecting:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.
xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Body><GetQuoteResponse xmln
s="http://www.webserviceX.NET/"><GetQuoteResult><StockQuotes><Stock>
<Symbol>IBN</Symbol><Last>38.58</Last><Date>7/30/2
010</Date><Time>10:24am</Time><Change>-0.35</Change&g
t;<Open>38.42</Open><High>38.86</High><Low>38.29&l
t;/Low><Volume>314170</Volume><MktCap>21.505B</MktCap&gt
;<PreviousClose>38.93</PreviousClose><PercentageChange>-0.90%&
lt;/PercentageChange><AnnRange>28.53 - 45.95</AnnRange><Earns&
gt;1.782</Earns><P-E>21.85</P-E><Name>ICICI Bank Limite&
lt;/Name></Stock></StockQuotes></GetQuoteResult></GetQuoteRespons
e></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>
Source Code:
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class stocksoapClient {
  public final static String DEFAULT_SERVER = "http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx";
  public final static String SOAP_ACTION = "http://www.webserviceX.NET/GetQuote";
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String input = "IBN";
    String server = DEFAULT_SERVER;
    if (args.length >= 2) server = args[1];
    try {
           Proxy proxy = new Proxy(Proxy.Type.HTTP, new InetSocketAddress("proxy.compaq.com", 8080));        
           URL u = new URL(server);
           URLConnection uc = u.openConnection(proxy);
           HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) uc;
           connection.setDoOutput(true);
           connection.setDoInput(true);
           connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
           connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",  "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
           connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length",  String.valueOf(input.length()));
           connection.setRequestProperty("SOAPAction", SOAP_ACTION);
           //connection.connect();
           OutputStream out = connection.getOutputStream();
           Writer wout = new OutputStreamWriter(out);
           //wout.write("POST" + DEFAULT_SERVER  + "HTTP/1.1");
           //wout.write("Host:www.webservicex.net");
           //wout.write("Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8");
           //wout.write("Content-Length: " + String.valueOf(input.length()));
           //wout.write("SOAPAction:" + SOAP_ACTION);         
          //wout.write("\n");     
           wout.write("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>"); 
           wout.write("<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'>");
           wout.write("<soap:Body>");
           wout.write("<GetQuote xmlns='http://www.webserviceX.NET/'>");
           wout.write("<symbol>"+input+"</symbol>");
           wout.write("</GetQuote>");     
           wout.write("</soap:Body>");
           wout.write("</soap:Envelope>");
           wout.flush();
           wout.close();
           BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
           String line;     
           //InputStream in = connection.getInputStream();
           //int c;
           while ((line=rd.readLine()) != null) {
              System.out.println(line);
           rd.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
           System.err.println(e);
}

Answer 1

This problem won't occur if the server side returns xmlobject to the client instead of a xmlstring
Thanks
Srinivas K G