On Mon, 12 May 2003, Larry Menten wrote:<?xml version='1.0' ?>...The above is an example from the SOAP 1.2 Recommendation, just so that we all know what is being described as an Airbus. Karl: If you would provide a comparable example or be more precise about what you feel is redundant we can debate this more meaningfully....
If all that we are talking about here is using the SOAP envelope without the "Header" element and without SOAP's processing model than I have far fewer concerns. I do have concern that those of us here do not all share the same conception of what parts of SOAP we are talking about. For example, there was mention the other day (and I believe in this thread) about SOAP's fault response mechanisms - those are part of the RPC (and "Header" element) of SOAP and are in addition to what is shown in your example. Part of the reasons that I ask the questions that I ask is to try to clarify what parts of this elephant we are talking about.
The header in that example is optional which is why I omitted it.(By-the-way, the more complete version of your example may be found in the SOAP 1.2 part 1 document at http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-soap12-part0-20030507/ )
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