title: Expecting Nested XML structure but receiving SOAP structure
body: <p>I'm making an app that is requesting data from a Web Service (implementing Soap).</p>
  
  <p><strong>People who are viewing this pleaase post doubts in comments... I havent got any response to the question do ask me if there is any doubts, i really need help, am stuck!!</strong></p>
  
  <p>So to make request I have to use ksoap libraries.. the Web service is <strong>coded to return a response of type XML</strong>. When the web service itself is tested on a browser it displays a result which is as follows: </p>
  
  <pre><code>?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?&gt; 
  - &lt;SOBKeyList&gt;
  - &lt;Key&gt;
    &lt;value&gt;12686&lt;/value&gt; 
    &lt;/Key&gt;
  - &lt;Key&gt;
    &lt;value&gt;16238&lt;/value&gt; 
    &lt;/Key&gt;
  - &lt;Key&gt;
    &lt;value&gt;26978&lt;/value&gt; 
    &lt;/Key&gt;
    &lt;/SOBKeyList&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>clearly an <strong>XML</strong> file...</p>
  
  <p><code>However</code> when i use ths code to get a result:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    public String getXmlFromUrl(String url) {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub
      String xml = null;
      SoapObject request = new SoapObject(WSDL_TARGET_NAMESPACE,OPERATION_NAME);
      PropertyInfo pi = new PropertyInfo();
  
      pi.setName("fkey");
      pi.setValue(0);
      pi.setType(Integer.class);
      request.addProperty(pi);
  
      pi = new PropertyInfo();
  
      pi.setName("tkey");
      pi.setValue(999999);
      pi.setType(Integer.class);
      request.addProperty(pi);
  
  
      SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(
              SoapEnvelope.VER11);
      envelope.dotNet = true;
      envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request);
      HttpTransportSE httpTransport = new HttpTransportSE(url);
      Object response = null; 
  
      try {
          httpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION, envelope);
          response = envelope.getResponse();
          xml = response.toString();
          Log.d("xml:", xml);
      } catch (SoapFault e) {
          // TODO Auto-generated catch block
          Log.d("Soap Fault", e.toString());
      } catch (IOException e) {
          // TODO Auto-generated catch block
          Log.d("IOexception", e.toString());
      } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
          // TODO Auto-generated catch block
          Log.d("XmlPullParserException", e.toString());
      }
  
      return xml;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It returns a <strong>nested SOAP structure</strong> <em>confirmed</em> by the Log entry which i make ( <code>Log.d("xml:", xml);</code> )
  The corresponding LogCat entry is: (i've formatted it to make it the SOAP structure's heirarchy apparent... )</p>
  
  <pre><code>anyType{
        SOBKeyList=anyType{
                            Key=anyType{value=12686 ; };
                            Key=anyType{value=16238 ; };
                            Key=anyType{value=26978 ; };
                           };
            }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The reason why i necessarily need an XML is because later I parse the string to get a <strong>DOM</strong> element and when the above string is passed it returns the following: </p>
  
  <p>org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Unexpected token (position:TEXT anyType{SOBKeyLi...@1:119 in java.io.StringReader@40ec9c68) </p>
  
  <p>also from there onward my entire code depends on the fact that the response was <strong>XML</strong>. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Explaination of the reason why i expected an XML</strong> :
  Now you may asked why I coded my app expecting XML when i had not tested the Web service the reason is: The Web service was coded my a third party who assured me of an XML response , now i dont have enough time to change my remaining code to exploit a SOAP structure !! 
  -_-
  I'm in a fix. Please help!</p>