& XSLT 

>  2. Is there any License free SOAP framework that allows
>  me to build a SOAP client cum server to achieve the above.


maybe you can try BEEP (Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol) and beepcore 
framework: http://www.beepcore.org/



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