The SOAP Envelope

The SOAP Envelope, as serialized by .NET, is shown in Listing 4.1.

Listing 4.1. The .NET SOAP Envelope Encoding
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
 xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
 xmlns:tns="http://tempuri.org/"
 xmlns:types="http://tempuri.org/encodedTypes"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
   <soap:Header/>
   <soap:Body/>
</soap:Envelope>

Serialization refers to the process of turning actual method parameter information at the time that the Web Service is invoked into a SOAP XML packet. In this case, you see only the namespaces associated with the XML. You'll see example parameters ...

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