SOAP response Web Service result includes

SOAP response Web Service result includes > <

Hi,
I'm calling a web service (SOAP1.2  POST).
ContentType in request is application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8

When I receive response, result body of SOAP response envelop contains
>  < instead of >, < .

Here is response:
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="
http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/
2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/
XMLSchema"><soap:Body><MyWebServiceResponse
xmlns="http://pankaj.takawale.net/">
        <MyWebServiceResult><Answer>123</
Answer><MyWebServiceResult>
</MyWebServiceResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

How to make web service return <Answer>1234</Answer> in result body?
Any changes required in SOAP xml request?
OR
Any way to parse  <Answer>123</Answer> using xerces
parser?

Pankaj.

date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:42:17 -0700 (PDT) author: pankajtakawale