Understanding InfoPath’s Web Service Requirements

InfoPath imposes several restrictions on XML Web services that you can use to create main or secondary data sources without adding Visual Basic .NET code or script to your form. Following are the most important of the Data Connection Wizard’s requirements for and restrictions of Web service data connections:

  • The Web service must use the SOAP 1.1 document/literal (doc/lit) format. Web services have style and use attributes; the style value is either document or rpc, and the use value can be literal or encoded. (The abbreviation rpc is short for remote procedure call.) The doc/lit format defines exchanging XML messages with their structures defined by a schema in the WSDL document; doc/lit is the ...

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