SOAP envelope
<env:Body>
The required SOAP container for an application payload or a single Fault response.
Body is the message part delivered to the ultimate receiver. Normal payload children come from an application vocabulary rather than the SOAP namespace.
When processing fails, Body contains Fault instead of a successful response payload. SOAP 1.2 permits only one Fault child.
- Format
- SOAP envelope
- Namespace
- SOAP 1.2 envelope
- Parent
- <env:Envelope>
- How many
- Exactly one, as the final child of Envelope.
What it contains
application payloadzero or moreNamespace-qualified application elements.env:Faultzero or one
What our validator does
The XML validator checks well-formedness and selected SOAP or XML Schema vocabulary rules. It reports this content-model defect with a concrete repair while staying silent on rules it cannot establish from one document.
Broken and fixed
Both documents below are well-formed XML — that is the point of this corpus — and both are run through the validator on every test run. The verdicts here are what it returned, not what we expect it to.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
<env:Body><m:getPrice xmlns:m="urn:example:catalog"><m:sku>42</m:sku></m:getPrice></env:Body>
<env:Header><m:trace xmlns:m="urn:example:meta">abc-123</m:trace></env:Header>
</env:Envelope>SOAP Header must appear before Body.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
<env:Header><m:trace xmlns:m="urn:example:meta">abc-123</m:trace></env:Header>
<env:Body><m:getPrice xmlns:m="urn:example:catalog"><m:sku>42</m:sku></m:getPrice></env:Body>
</env:Envelope>Where it reaches
- FormatsSOAP envelopeThe SOAP format page places this element in the complete document model.
- NamespacesSOAP 1.2 envelopeThe exact namespace URI that gives <env:Body> its vocabulary meaning.
- ToolsXML validatorRun selected envelope, Header, Body, and Fault checks before service dispatch.
Related elements
- <env:Envelope>The SOAP 1.2 document element: an optional Header followed by one required Body.
- <env:Header>The optional SOAP container for routing, security, tracing, transactions, and other processing metadata.
- <env:Fault>SOAP 1.2's structured error payload, with a machine-readable Code and human-readable Reason.
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