Herong's Tutorial Notes on Web Service and SOAP
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SOAP Encoding Attributes and Namespace

This section describes the namespace and attributes used in SOAP Encoding.

As we can see from the previous sections, SOAP encoding specification defines the following attributes in its own namespace, "http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding".

   <... xmlns:enc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding" ...>
    <... enc:nodeType="simple" enc:id="...">
    </...>
    <... enc:nodeType="simple" enc:ref="..."/>
    <... enc:nodeType="array" enc:arraySize="..." enc:itemType="...">
     ...
    </..>
    <... enc:noteType="struct">
     ...
    </..>
   </...> 

Sections in This Chapter

What Is SOAP Encoding?

Multiple References and Circular References

Node Types - simple, struct, array

SOAP Encoding Attributes and Namespace

Using SOAP Encoding in SOAP Messages

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2007
SOAP Encoding Attributes and Namespace