Michael Lopez wrote:

> I've written a small web service in c# that takes in a plaintext string,
> encrypts it, then returns the encrypted string. Some of the characters
> returned by encryption are illegal xml characters and causes an error when
> trying to consume the service coldfusion(axis). The service works fine when
> accessed on its own. I've read that a CDATA block would be the answer, but I
> have been looking and can't find much information on this.

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

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> Michael Lopez wrote:
>
> > I've written a small web service in c# that takes in a plaintext string,
> > encrypts it, then returns the encrypted string. Some of the characters
> > returned by encryption are illegal xml characters and causes an error when
> > trying to consume the service coldfusion(axis). The service works fine when
> > accessed on its own. I've read that a CDATA block would be the answer, but I
> > have been looking and can't find much information on this.
>
> You would need to base64 encode the binary data if you want to pass it
> around in an XML document.
>
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