Special Character XML Web Service call from Flex

Question

Hi,
Let me first give a little background.
I have to query and return data in XML format. To do so, I have created a custom DSC component. In cases where XML has special characters, LC throws error saying that XML is not properly formed. To over come this issue I used CDATA tag at DSC component. Now LC works as it should and I returns correct result.
I have a web service call from Flex to get this XML result. Every time i trigger this web service I get an error message saying </document> tag is missing.
I understand in Flex, web service returned data is wrapped in CDATA tag, thats what i causing all this issue.
I am not sure, how to handle this situation, I am sure this is a common problem and there should be ways to work around it.
I would really appreciate if any one could point me in the right direction.
Thank you ..

Answer 1

The web service has four operations in it, I need pingQuery operation execution code since it doesnot need any input value.
I have used code something like this.. Any one please correct me if I am wrong..
<mx:WebService 
<mx:WebService> id="webService" wsdl=""https://hydrogen.csd.sc.edu/axis2/services/AcademicHistoryService?wsdl
>
<mx:operation name="pingQuery"resultFormat="
object"result="resultHandler(event);"
fault="faultHandler(event);"
>
<mx:request>
<PingQuerySpecification>
<value>
fsdf
</value>
</PingQuerySpecification>
</mx:request>
</mx:operation>
</mx:WebService>
private function resultHandler(evt:ResultEvent):void {Alert.show(ObjectUtil.toString(evt.result));
private function faultHandler(evt:FaultEvent):void {Alert.show(evt.message.toString());