I only looked at the specs for SOAPBody. Could you please look at the other SOAP elements before we jump to the conclusion that text is generally allowed/disallowed. Once we found out we challege the CTS with our findings. SOAP-1.1 Envelope: ? Header: ? HeaderElement: ? Body: no BodyElement: ? SOAP-1.2 Envelope: ? Header: ? HeaderElement: ? Body: yes BodyElement: ? Thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012308#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...