What is a CDATA tag in a soap envelope

Question

The registry is requesting that we add CDATA tags to the soap envelope. How do you add this and what is it.

Answer 1

The term CDATA is used about text data that should not be parsed by the XML parser. Some registries mostly Immunization registries need the HL7 message that is in the soap envelope to be wrapped with this tag.

Add "<![CDATA[" before the hl7 message

Add "]]>" to after the hl7 message

Example of wrapping the HL7 with a CDATA tag in a qvera soap envelope.

 

         <urn:hl7Message>

            <![CDATA[{m:/}]]>

         </urn:hl7Message>