According to the design given to me, I will be recieving a SOAP message which has XML document in it. How do I extract the XML intact from the SOAP body? for ex:

Aarun Jones








In Java, when I recieve the SOAP message how do I extract just the person element? I believe we will be using Apache Axis or Systinet.



I used MessageContext to get the body. But, the problem is that it is already parsed. Our requirement is that the body should be stored in a db as the exact string arrived for later processing. Is there a way to get just the body part as a string?



I know Java, JSP pretty well. Don't know much about Web Services or XML. Is there a good book for writing such server side web services?



Thanks for your help.



Aarun.