Another basic question: faults best practices

[Elaine Nance <el...@commerce.state.ak.us>]

TIA for your kind response:

This is related to trying to get an improved wsdl.

The situation is this:

Trying to program to a service with well-formed in messages and 
not so swell out messages.

This question probably implies other questions as well.

Many of the out messages (responses) may contain an <errors> 
element.  However, since ALL out messages are defined as strings, 
there is no type definition for the <errors> element which may be 
contained in the xml document stuffed into a string.

Should errors be returned as SOAP faults?  If not, why not?

All input appreciated,
Elaine

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