p5-XML-Compile-SOAP

Base-class for SOAP implementations

XML::Compile::SOAP handles the SOAP protocol. The first implementation is SOAP1.1 (http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/), which is still most often used. The SOAP1.2 definition (http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12/) is provided via the separate distribution XML::Compile::SOAP12. Be aware that there are three kinds of SOAP: 1. Document style (literal) SOAP, where there is a WSDL file which explicitly types all out-going and incoming messages. Very easy to use. 2. RPC style SOAP literal. The body of the message has an extra element wrapper, but the content is also well defined. 3. RPC style SOAP encoded. The sent data is nowhere described formally. The data is constructed in some ad-hoc way.