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Posted to soap-user@ws.apache.org by Gaurav <ga...@ecom.aptech.ac.in> on 2001/05/30 14:52:39 UTC

Why do we need encoding-style?

Hi all,

What exactly is meant by "encoding-style" attribute in SOAP message. I read that "encoding-style"  value informs the server of the encoding style used to encode -- i.e., serialize -- the method. But dont we use XML to serialize the method in SOAP?? So why would we use an encoding-style attribute?  Does anybody have any example which shows utility of this attribute in a practical scenario?

Thnaks and regards,
Gaurav