Si,

I understand the soap:headerfault as specific the the soap:header that
scopes it. Therefore, the soap:header can be either scoped by <input>  or
<output> .  Faulting on a header using soap:headerfault would be specific the
header (whether input|output) header.


Thx,

-Matt





>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Simon Horrell [mailto:simonh@[...].com]
>  Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 9:40 AM
>  To: wsdl@[...].com
>  Subject: Re: [wsdl] Where to put headerfaults in the SOAP Binding
> 
> 
>  Hi Bob.
>  Where does the WSDL spec say that a soap:headerfault will be "contained
>  within the <input>element in the binding"?
>  Did I overlook something?
> 
>  In sections http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl#_soap:header and
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl#_how-s, the WSDL spec shows that a
>  soap:headerfault element can be present within soap:header
>  elements defined
>  within a /wsdl:definitions/wsdl:binding/wsdl:operation/wsdl:input or a
>  /wsdl:definitions/wsdl:binding/wsdl:operation/wsdl:output.
> 
>  Because a soap:headerfault is describing part of the message that will go
>  back as output, then could it be argued that it should be contained within
>  the <output>element in the binding?
> 
>  Si.
> 
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Bob Cunnings" <cunnings@[...].com>
>  To: <wsdl@[...].com>
>  Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 4:20 PM
>  Subject: Re: [wsdl] Where to put headerfaults in the SOAP Binding
> 
> 
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Yes, the fault header entries are declared using soap:faultheader
>  > elements nested within the request header declaration with which
>  > they are associated, so this will all be contained within the <input>
>  > element in the binding. Here is an example:
>  >
>  > http://www.whitemesa.net/wsdl/std/soapauthtest.wsdl
>  >
>  > RC
>  >
>  > >
>  > > I have a web service which accepts some information in the SOAP header
>  and
>  > > may return some errors based on these values. I want to describe this
>  using
>  > > WSDL.
>  > >
>  > > I can describe the SOAP header using a <soap:header> element
>  within the
>  > > <input> element of the SOAP Binding. However, the implications of the
>  > > following text from the spec seem a little strange:
>  > >
>  > > The optional headerfault elements which appear inside soap:header
>  > > and have the same syntax as soap:header) allows specification of
>  > > the header type(s) that are used to transmit error information
>  > > pertaining to the header defined by the soap:header. The SOAP
>  > > specification states that errors pertaining to headers must be
>  > > returned in headers, and this mechanism allows specification of
>  > > the format of such headers.
>  > >
>  > > If the headerfaults must be defined within the header that they relate
>  to,
>  > > does this mean that the errors returned by the web service should be
>  defined
>  > > within the <soap:header> element of the request message? That would
>  imply
>  > > that the header faults that may appear in the output message
>  are defined
>  > > within the <input> element.
>  > >
>  > > James.
>  > >
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