I wanted make a slight addition to the previous answers to this question, in the event that anyone else is in the same situation I was. I had the same problem on our WebLogic 9.2 server due to my use of CXF 2.2.3. In addition to the removal of the xml-apis.jar mentioned previously, I also had to remove a xmlParserAPIs library.
As I am using Maven2 it was just a simple matter of adding another inclusion.
<!-- CXF -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-bundle</artifactId>
<version>${dependency.version.cxf}</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
<groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
<groupId>xerces</groupId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>xmlbeans</artifactId>
<groupId>org.apache.xmlbeans</groupId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>xmlParserAPIs</artifactId>
<groupId>xerces</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>