R: mistake in SOAP envelope XMLSchema

 
Hi Christopher,
 
thank you for your answer.
Actually I was talking about SOAP 1.1 (not 1.2) and about this XMLSchema:
 
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
 
which (as stated in the comment) appears to be the official SOAP 1.1 schema. (Am I wrong?)
I agree with you: SOAP 1.2 does not allow the encodingStyle attribute to appear on the envelope element, but SOAP 1.1 (and its schema) should!
 
Best regards,
 
Alessandro Pira
 

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Da: Christopher B Ferris [mailto:chrisfer@us.ibm.com] 
Inviato: mercoledì 14 novembre 2007 15.07
A: Alessandro Pira
Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Oggetto: Re: mistake in SOAP envelope XMLSchema



Alessandro, 

The quoted text you cite is pretty clear. I have emphasized using CAPS. 

"SOAP 1.2 DOES NOT ALLOW the env:encodingStyle attribute to appear on the SOAP env:Envelope, whereas SOAP 1.1 allows it to appear on any element. SOAP 1.2 specifies specific elements where this attribute may be used." 

Additionally, from the SOAP1.2 specification [1]: 

"The encodingStyle attribute information item MAY appear on the following: 
1.        A SOAP header block (see 5.2.1 SOAP header block <http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#soapheadblock> ). 
2.        A child element information item of the SOAP Body element information item (see 5.3.1 SOAP Body child Element <http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#soapbodyel> ) if that child is not a SOAP Fault element information item (see 5.4 SOAP Fault <http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#soapfault> ). 
3.        A child element information item of the SOAP Detail element information item (see 5.4.5.1 SOAP detail entry <http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#faultdetailentry> ). 
4.        Any descendent of 1, 2, and 3 above. 

The encodingStyle attribute information item MUST NOT appear on any element other than above in a SOAP message infoset." 

The soap:encodingStyle attribute is NOT permitted to be included in on the soap:Envelope element. Therefore, the schema is correct. 

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#soapencattr 

Cheers, 

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Software Group Standards Strategy
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/chrisferris
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xml-dist-app-request@w3.org wrote on 11/12/2007 05:44:25 AM:

> Hi all, 
>   
> I am writing to this mailing list since I think I found a mistake in
> the official xml schema for SOAP envelopes: 
>   
> http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ 
>   
> The error involves the encodingStyle attribute which (as stated in 
> examples in the note and also in [1]) seems possible to use in the 
> Envelope element. 
> But the official XMLSchema (http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
> ) forbids this since it states: 
>   
> [...] 
> <xs:complexType name="Envelope">
>  <xs:sequence>
>    <xs:element ref="tns:Header" minOccurs="0"/>
>    <xs:element ref="tns:Body" minOccurs="1"/>
>    <xs:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" 
> processContents="lax"/>
>  </xs:sequence>
>  <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>
> </xs:complexType> 
> [...] 
>   
> I think it should say namespace="##any" in the xs:anyAttribute 
> element (or explicitly define the encodingStyle attribute). 
>   
> I wrote you because the company I work for publishes some 
> webservices for our customers, and we use 3rd party libraries for 
> managing SOAP communication. Now some of our customers for some 
> reason are accusing us to be not compliant to the official SOAP 
> protocol, which I think is not true, but even W3C XMLSchema 
> validator shows that the Envelope we use is not valid because of the
> "encodingStyle" attribute. 
>   
> Can you please check if it's possible to correct the XMLSchema? 
>   
> Thank you in advance for your time, 
>   
> Alessandro Pira 
>   
>   
> [1] : the SOAP 1.2 part 0 Primer in Chapter 6 (Changes Between SOAP 
> 1.1 and SOAP 1.2) states: 
>   
> "SOAP 1.2 does not allow the env:encodingStyle attribute to appear 
> on the SOAP env:Envelope, whereas SOAP 1.1 allows it to appear on 
> any element. SOAP 1.2 specifies specific elements where this 
> attribute may be used." 
>   
>