Im getting < and > in response instead of xml structure

Hello to all,

I'm trying to hit for a soap request on a wsdl service but the response format I'm getting is in < and >, due to which all of other test steps are getting failed. The response from the service is generally in xml structure. I must have done something wrong in my own ReadyAPI settings.. maybe in preferences . Can anyone please guide me , where I'm getting wrong?

sample of the response I'm getting : 

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body><SearchResponse xmlns="UniversalAirAPI"><SearchResult xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Error i:nil="true"/><IsSearchComplete>true</IsSearchComplete>
<Results xmlns:a="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
<a:string>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?&gt;&lt;ArrayOfSearchResult&gt;&lt;SearchResult&gt;&lt;ResultId&gt;&lt;

Regards,

Vaibhav