I have a spring integration project with a ws-inbound-gateway configured with map-request-headers="*". I then use a downstream router that references header-name="SOAP-ENV:Version" . The problem I get is that that header is returned as a org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapHeaderEle ment, but the header router is expecting a String.

Is there a way to execute an SpEL expression, xpath, or something else to extract the string from the element that is apparently being created?