Herong's Tutorial Notes on Web Service and SOAP
Dr. Herong Yang, Version 3.00

SOAP Encoding

This chapter provides notes on SOAP Encoding rules and examples.

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

Conclusions

SOAP encoding is based on SOAP date model.

SOAP encoding basic rules are easy to remember: inbound edge makes an XML element, and outbound edges make sub elements.

Question, can a group of nodes be serialized into two different XML messages?

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2007
SOAP Encoding