Lance, I am a member of the JBoss Web Services team. The project lead, Thomas Diesler, indicated you as the person to go to when questions/issues about the CTS emerge. I have one such question with regard to SAAJ tests. I was hoping you could help me, either directly or by forwarding my question to the SAAJ team at Sun. ----------- The test case saaj/api/javax_xml_soap/SOAPElement contains two tests, addTextNodeTest1 and addTextNodeTest2, that verify the addition of non-whitespace text to SOAPBody and SOAPHeader under SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2. Of the four assertions, only adding Text to a SOAPHeader under SOAP 1.2 is expected to throw an exception. No explicit requirement on Text children of Elements appears in the SOAP 1.1 specification. This is consistent with the CTS assertions: text nodes are always accepted. The table below summarizes explicit requirements on 'character information item' children of 'element information items' defined by the SOAP 1.2 specification. EII CII content Significant? --- --- --- Envelope white space no Header white space no HeaderElement any character yes Body white space yes BodyElement any character yes Fault white space no Detail white space yes DetailEntry any character yes Given the table above, adding non-whitespace text to SOAPHeader or SOAPBody under SOAP 1.2 is invalid. This applies to SOAPEnvelope, SOAPFault and Detail as well. The CTS expects SOAPHeader to throw an exception but not SOAPBody. Other elements are not even tested. What is the rationale behind requiring SOAPHeader to throw an exception, but not other elements? ---------- Thanks, Alejandro Guizar Senior Software Engineer JBoss, a division of Red Hat E: aguizar(a)redhat.com M: 512-905-0841