diff --git a/teamengine-core/src/main/java/com/occamlab/te/parsers/SoapParser.java b/teamengine-core/src/main/java/com/occamlab/te/parsers/SoapParser.java
index 3254486a3..1b0494a72 100644
--- a/teamengine-core/src/main/java/com/occamlab/te/parsers/SoapParser.java
+++ b/teamengine-core/src/main/java/com/occamlab/te/parsers/SoapParser.java
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ public Document parse(URLConnection uc, Element instruction,
      * 
      * @author Simone Gianfranceschi
      */
-    private Document parse(Object xml, Element instruction, PrintWriter logger)
+    public Document parse(Object xml, Element instruction, PrintWriter logger)
             throws Exception {
         Document soapMessage = null;
         String returnType = instruction.getAttribute("return");// envelope or
diff --git a/teamengine-core/src/test/java/com/occamlab/te/parsers/SoapParserTest.java b/teamengine-core/src/test/java/com/occamlab/te/parsers/SoapParserTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fb99a7a5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/teamengine-core/src/test/java/com/occamlab/te/parsers/SoapParserTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+package com.occamlab.te.parsers;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+
+public class SoapParserTest {
+
+    private static DocumentBuilder docBuilder;
+
+    @BeforeClass
+    public static void initFixture() throws ParserConfigurationException {
+        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+        dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
+        docBuilder = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void parseWithSchema() throws Exception {
+        Document schemaRefs = parseResourceDocument("/conf/soap-schema.xml");
+        Document doc = parseResourceDocument("/soap-response.xml");
+        StringWriter strWriter = new StringWriter();
+        PrintWriter logger = new PrintWriter(strWriter);
+        SoapParser iut = new SoapParser();
+        Document result = iut.parse(doc, schemaRefs.getDocumentElement(), logger);
+        assertNotNull(result);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Parses an XML Document from a classpath resource.
+     * 
+     * @param resourcePath
+     *            relative to the current class
+     * @return never null
+     */
+    private Document parseResourceDocument(final String resourcePath)
+            throws SAXException, IOException {
+        final URL url = getClass().getResource(resourcePath);
+        final Document doc = docBuilder.parse(url.toString());
+        doc.setDocumentURI(url.toString());
+        return doc;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/teamengine-core/src/test/resources/conf/soap-schema.xml b/teamengine-core/src/test/resources/conf/soap-schema.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ca2928e3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/teamengine-core/src/test/resources/conf/soap-schema.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<ctlp:SoapParser
+	xmlns:ctlp="http://www.occamlab.com/te/parsers" ignoreErrors="false"
+	ignoreWarnings="true" return="content">
+</ctlp:SoapParser>
diff --git a/teamengine-core/src/test/resources/soap-response.xml b/teamengine-core/src/test/resources/soap-response.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2a93063d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/teamengine-core/src/test/resources/soap-response.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<?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:sos="http://www.opengis.net/sos/2.0"
+	xmlns:om="http://www.opengis.net/om/2.0"
+	xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2"
+	xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/om/2.0 http://schemas.opengis.net/om/2.0/observation.xsd http://www.opengis.net/sos/2.0 http://schemas.opengis.net/sos/2.0/sosGetObservation.xsd http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2 http://schemas.opengis.net/gml/3.2.1/gmlBase.xsd http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
+	<soap:Header />
+	<soap:Body>
+		<sos:GetObservationResponse>
+			<sos:observationData>
+				<om:OM_Observation gml:id="o_0D4447DFB5AFBEDEDE5CF243F25B47F69D1B7BE1">
+					<gml:description>test description for this observation</gml:description>
+					<gml:identifier codeSpace="http://www.opengis.net/def/nil/OGC/0/unknown">http:/www.tsuruoka-nct.ac.jp/test/observation/0</gml:identifier>
+					<om:type xlink:href="http://www.opengis.net/def/observationType/OGC-OM/2.0/OM_Measurement" />
+					<om:phenomenonTime>
+						<gml:TimeInstant gml:id="phenomenonTime_430">
+							<gml:timePosition>2012-11-19T17:45:15.000Z</gml:timePosition>
+						</gml:TimeInstant>
+					</om:phenomenonTime>
+					<om:resultTime xlink:href="#phenomenonTime_430" />
+					<om:procedure xlink:href="http://www.tsuruoka-nct.ac.jp/test/procedure/0" />
+					<om:observedProperty xlink:href="http://www.tsuruoka-nct.ac.jp/test/observableProperty/Temperature" />
+					<om:featureOfInterest xlink:href="http://www.52north.org/test/featureOfInterest/9" />
+					<om:result xmlns:ns="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2" uom="test_unit_9_3" xsi:type="ns:MeasureType">0.28</om:result>
+				</om:OM_Observation>
+			</sos:observationData>
+		</sos:GetObservationResponse>
+	</soap:Body>
+</soap:Envelope>
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