means of encoding style in SOAP

[giuseppe astarita]

Hi, my full-name is giuseppe astarita j have a question: why SOAP must define encoding style ? Is useful for what reason ? THANKS FOR ANSWER

[Peer Reynders]

Actually Basic Profile conformant web services cannot use RPC/encoded or Document/encoded SOAP messages.
BP 1.0a: 4.1.7 SOAP encodingStyle Attribute
They can only use RPC/literal and Document/literal.

SOAP seemed to want to introduce a way to customize the serialization of data.
SOAP 1.1: 4.1.1 SOAP encodingStyle Attribute
SOAP 1.1: 5. SOAP Encoding
BP stuck with literal, non-encoded XML as encodingStyle seemed to just duplicate features that can be addressed with XML namespaces and XML Schema.