Supported XML features

The XML codec can convert messages that contain the following:

Elements

Attributes

Text nodes

CDATA nodes, including CDATA nodes that contain an XML document to be parsed

CDATA nodes are supported only in the downstream direction.

Namespace prefixes and definitions (only basic support)

XPath expressions, including functions

Result types of XPath expressions must be simple. For example,

string contains();

The XML codec cannot convert XML data that contains the following XML features:

Document type specifiers

Processing instructions

Notations and entities

XML with more than one top-level (root) element

Node or nodeset XPath expressions

For Node or nodeset XPath expressions, only the first match is returned.