Send raw XML strings? What's wrong?

Smack Smack Dev
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I created an application which sends messages from one client to another. The messages are nothing but raw xml strings. This is what I did:

Message message = new Message();

message.setFrom("bob@gmail.com"); // for example

message.setBody("…"); // Set the raw xml string as the body of the message

connection.sendPacket(message);

But I kept receiving error stanzas from the server.

Messages type is not ‘chat’, ‘groupchat’ or ‘invite’

Can anyone help with this? Is it prohibited to send raw xml strings?

Rui