Specifically we are going to look at: And in the end we're going to look at how a Soap UI Pro Event Handler can make all this much easier CDATA sections are used in XML documents to escape longer blocks of text that could otherwise be interpreted as markup, for example: Which is 100% equivalent to the previous version using CDATA; parsing either of these with some parser would return the content as a string and not parsed out as XML. It is (unfortunately) quite common that SOAP messages contain some part of the payload in a request or response as a string and not as XML, which has both advantages and disadvantages.